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Overdue library book returned 49 years later

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Jan 27, 2016

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A Michigan library just added a long-lost book back to its shelves.

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According to a post on Herrick District Library's Facebook page, a man returned an overdue library book after nearly five decades.

"I was a student at Hope College in 1967," the man wrote in a letter. "I must have been doing a paper or some research on World War II."

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