The book called Invisible Libraries contains vignettes of libraries that could have been. It’s written with fluid prose and I love it. But I do not posses the book, it was lost to an old lover when we parted ways. This story is inspired by that loss:
https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/books-and-broken-hearts-679df6abd619
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