When I was sixteen years old
I became a member of the "
Artigas-Washington" library. It was an important step in
my life
because Uruguay was always a poor country and our libraries were
small
with old books. I read "Hojas de Hierba" (Leaves of
Grass) by Walt
Whitman so many times that some important woman who came from
The United
States gave me the book. I enjoyed the Democracy Poet very much,
but I
used the library mostly for borrowing science books. I went every
week
to read magazines such as Science and Nature. At some time in
my life I
was addicted to the articles of Steefen Jay Gould.
I think that
libraries are the soul of the cities. It was the first
place that I went when I came to Worcester. It is the biggest
library
that I know. I started the conversation meetings a month after
arriving
and it has allowed me to find links with this culture
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