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Bébé Bibliophile

Yeah, I read

Almost every weekday (depending on which magazine was released), I’d walk down to the local bodega near our house in Rabat, plonk the latest edition of whatever off the shelf, and ask Jamal the store owner to keyyid-ha — write it down in his ledger so that my dad could pay for the total amount at the end of the month. I was painfully aware of the back catalog of crisp issues I had missed out on during my absence, so despite being bedraggled from the trip and the late hour, I insisted on going to Jamal’s “just to say hi!” I claimed. series, which recently had a video game adaptation — as my all-time favorite book, in part because John Blanche ’s illustrations added so much bewitchment to exploring that fictional town.

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