When I was growing up with my 7 siblings, we amazingly never stole from one another, well at least I didn’t. Sure we would borrow each other clothes. I am sure my brothers and I often ended up with each others’ socks each time the laundry was done. That was not stealing, it was just laundry.  We did not steal with one notable exception. Books. We were all voracious readers. If there was a good book in the house, and the person currently reading it, put it down. ZAMM it was in someone’s hands or room. There were quite a few book battles at times, with many accusations of who was reading which book first. I remember Jaws, The Lord of the Rings, and the Shinning being particularly well stolen, particularly because the younger siblings were told that they could not read them, which just increased the value of those books.Watership Down was another well thumbed book. Now If I could just remember which one of them ended up with my copy of “All creatures great and small.”

© words by Dan DeMarle 2017