When he was younger, Ronald Clark lived in the library. Exactly! Ronald’s father, Raymond, worked as a _____ of a branch of the New York Public Library in Upper Manhattan then, and his family lived on the top floor of the building. The job of the library guard, as Ronald _____, is like being “the keeper of the palace of _____”. However, at first, Ronald was _____ of his unusual home. “Every kid wants to have a _____ home, and I never invited any of my friends to visit it,” he says.

However, he admits that nobody else had as many _____ as he had. And once the library was closed for the day, it _____ him to be the only kid in the building who could run, jump, _____ and cheer. “And if I had any _____ about anything, I would get up in the middle of the night, go down, take out a book and read until 3 o’clock the next morning,” he says. “I began to realize how ______ I was because the library gave me the ______ for learning — and this just never leaves me.”

His experience of living in the library ______ the man he would become. He was the first in his family to _____high school, and after college, he got a position as a professor teaching history.

“My dad’s ______ was beyond words. I took him to my office and showed him my name on the door — Professor Clark,” Ronald says. “I saw the way he looked at it and I can hardly even ______ what my life would have been like if I had not lived in the library.”