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I met another dead man today. This one was an accomplished attorney in a high-powered Denver law firm. He decompressed from his high-stress work by painting military miniatures -- thousands of them.
Today was a day of lows and highs at Printed Page. A cold wind scoured the street; maybe that's why we didn't have any customers. Toward afternoon, an elderly couple came in wanting to sell some books.
I get to know a lot of people after it's too late to meet them. Their books tell me who they were. Go into a stranger's house and look at their books, and you'll come as close as possible to reading their mind. The other day, I got to meet Warren through the books his widow brought me.
No kid in America ever dreams of growing up to be a bookseller, including me. I thought I was set for life with a career in corporate communication when I