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What if the local independent was too far for you to travel to have experienced that passion?  If anything... if for nothing else... to me, our very existence is justified in that statement alone.  I wonder how many Independent bookstores were there before your Barnes and Noble moved in? It is terrifying to me that, with our american readership struggling, kids scoring lower and lower in absurd standardized tests all the time, that there are fewer and fewer places to buy books.  How long, seriously, before there is only one place to buy books?  How horrible to give one entity such power...
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