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4:25 Residents lift weights at a socially-distanced exercise class at Knollwood. Others joined the class by Zoom from their rooms. Tyrone Turner/WAMU/DCist toggle caption Tyrone Turner/WAMU/DCist As she approached her eighties, Priscilla Cunningham found a new calling. She became the librarian at Knollwood, a D.C. retirement facility that serves veterans and former diplomats and their families. I discovered what I was going to be when I grow up, as she puts it. That was five years ago. Since then, she s gotten good at helping people find the perfect book Our biggest selling component is, oddly enough, not Elizabethan poetry, it s mysteries and thrillers, she says. She s comfortable with the other demands of the job, too. She s used to marshaling her volunteers, running book events, and writing columns in the resident newsletter. ....