By All Means Avail Yourselves of Other Fine Amenities in This Neighborhood

I find myself agreeing with Jerome in general but in my own case in particular. I didn't have anybody my own age to talk to about what I was reading until going to the Telluride Association Summer Program at Cornell University as a junior in high school. (Also a memorable experience for the not entirely coincidental fact that I met my first girlfriend there.) Instead, I ended up writing in notebooks about what I was reading.

Some decades later, I make a living writing about books and am married to a librarian. Such would probably count as destiny at work.....