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To: pocotrader who wrote (388957)	11/18/2018 8:01:02 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 541990

I was also a big Andre Norton fan as a teen.

To: pocotrader who wrote (388957)	11/19/2018 11:10:45 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541990

When I was 9 or 10 my childhood mentor Bobby Herr and I would join the book reading contest at the library in Richmond California.When we walked down to the library and got close we would both start running to try and get to the children's section first to go to the OZ section.They had all 34 books of that series, and we wanted to see if any new ones had come in we hadn't read. Then we went to the Freddie the Pig section. Bobbie's parents were Germans who had escaped Hitter, but lost everything and so move into my neighborhood. They had Bobbie late in life and were in their 50's. Neither spoke much. Bobbie had twin beds in his room and he would lie on one bed and I on the other and read all afternoon. Every once in a while his little old German mother would come in with ginger snaps and milk. When we tired of reading we would go downstairs to play games. In the summer we also planted a garden. Bobby was such a good student and went on to UC Berkeley and was editor of the Bolt Law Review. Later in life his law firm saved my mother from her husband who absconded with her money. I often wonder what would have become of me without Bobbie guiding me when we were kids. My brother raised in a similar environment only made it to the 8th grade. He was also the nicest guy you ever met and honest as the day is long, and fearless.