A Toast To Reading...

Her: "I've read since I was a little girl; I escaped through the stories. I like a lot of non-fiction, first-time writers, Southern writers. It's just… I just… (pause) I *love* reading!"
Me: "What was the last book you read that really made you want to bang on the table in awe?"
Her: "'The Great Bridge,' about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, by David McCullough. Great book."
Me: "What's something we don't know about the Brooklyn Bridge that you know now because you read the book?"
Her: "There were fourteen engineers, it took fourteen years to build and they lost only one engineer. They worked together really well."

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