“The process of falling in love with Michael had been like discovering herself. He was very flawed—self conscious, clumsy, always striving in a very earnest and eager way to please (and so, she thought, become validated and accepted, even by people who came into his life just briefly—store clerks, gas station attendants, people selling magazine subscriptions (he had told her about these encounters, had told her about his obsequious smiles and his overarching need to show himself to be, he said, “a worthy person”)) and she has seen some of her own flaws— her self-consciousness and clumsiness—mirrored in him, which often made being with him as much pain as passion. For reasons he had never understood, she called him her “wild angel,” which she knew he liked because he might have actually seen himself as a kind of angel.”
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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