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“My father was the keeper of the temple of knowledge.” A story for anyone who’s ever dreamed of living in a library. In our brand-new animated short, Ronald Clark revisits a childhood that provided extraordinary access to a branch of the New York Public Library — complete with middle-of-the-night book expeditions. | StoryCorps