[gmku]

gmku had other library incidents. When he was about 10, he became interested in the library's collection of photography annuals, particularly because of the artistic renderings of the nude female body. He spent weeks, though, working up the nerve to check out one of these and take it home. He finally did work up the nerve one day and took it up to the stern-looking librarian with the gray hair in a bun, and to his surprise, she scanned it and passed it back with no questions asked. But he became so unnerved about the next step, which would be to smuggle it unnoticed into his parents' house, that as soon as he was past the library's doors, he turned around and dropped it in the return box.

A couple days later, steeling his nerves again, he brought the photography annual back up to the check out desk. This time, the librarian raised an eyebrow and asked him why he was so interested in this book. gmku couldn't speak, and the librarian didn't let him check it out.