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The hidden gem bookshop, the rare find, the place you keep going back to. A line or two. Anonymous if you want.
I've been going to Pages on Kensington since I was twelve. My mom used to take me every Saturday after swimming lessons. Now I take my own daughter. Three generations of book lovers and the staff still remembers our names. That's Calgary.
Kensington · Saturday Regular · Multigenerational Love
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The Mount Royal University shelf you grew up beside. The Sunday afternoon at Pages on Kensington. The clerk at Owl’s Nest who knew your reading list better than you did. Calgary bookstores, remembered.