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chronic-invisibility · 1 year ago

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I keep remembering tiny tiny details of books I read as a kid or books that were read to me as a kid and desperately wanting to find them again but having so little detail to go off of that it’s virtually impossible. This is like the third book I’ve remembered and had an all-consuming need to find, although I did actually find one of them recently, the other one I’ve been wondering about for a few years, and I just remembered another tonight while I was taking a bath.

#like idk the title idk the author idk the name of the person the book was about #all i remember is i was at story time at the library and the book was about someone who by today’s standards would be a trans man #but at the time that this person lived (1800s or early 1900s) nobody found out until they died that they were afab #that’s the only detail of this book that i remember other than which children’s librarian did that story time and that she wore overalls #and that librarian has retired and moved away so i can’t just go and ask her #my mom’s best friend’s oldest child is a research librarian now tho so maybe i can ask them and they can help me look #the other book i’ve been trying to find for years was a big book about native americans my grandparents had and i was obsessed with it #i really wanted to build a wigwam for myself in my yard with the diagrams that were in the book but that never happened #there was also a pattern for how to make your own moccasins #idk which specific native american tribe it was about or if it was about them in general bc i think the book might have been my uncle’s #idk i really would like to find either of those some day but idk how likely it’ll be

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