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DISPATCH #044
■ True Stories

George Washington’s 221-Year Overdue Library Book

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In 1789, George Washington borrowed a book from the New York Society Library… and never returned it. More than two centuries later, librarians rediscovered the forgotten loan, turning it into one of the strangest and most charming stories in American history.

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