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  Homeless in Mass. sue over library policy
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Last EditedThe Oncoming Storm  Aug 09, 2006 11:49am
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News DateAug 09, 2006 11:00am
DescriptionWORCESTER, Mass. - Robert Bombard has always been a voracious reader. He worked at the city library as a teenager and was a volunteer there as an adult. Even when he served two years in jail on a drug charge, he did his time working in the lockup's library.

"I revere books," Bombard said. "I treat them very well. I wouldn't even put an open book down on the table because I don't want to hurt the binding."

So when Bombard went to check out more than two volumes after spending a day as a volunteer at Worcester's main library branch last summer, he was shocked when they told him no.
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