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"We were both librarians and got on like a house on fire as soon as we met in 1985," Cathy says.

"Behind every scholarly revelation stands the essential work of librarians, who not only collect and preserve materials, but create pathways that otherwise would remain hidden," she said.

The resident librarian takes Corby under her wing, and invites him to put his artist skills to work by painting a mural, which proves cathartic.

“Libraries are not icing on the cake. They’re not the cherry on top,” John Szabo, the city librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, told me.

It can now represent a librarian, adjunct professor or social worker, all of whom make little more than McDonald’s wages, but are the cultural villains of the great Republican morality play.