“I started helping my mother here after school when I was six years...” – Kathleen Kelly, You've Got Mail ... Movie Quotes Database

[to Joe Fox, after first meeting him in "The Shop Around the Corner"]

I started helping my mother here after school when I was six years old. I used to watch her, and it wasn't that she was selling books, it was that she was helping people become whoever they were going to turn out to be. When you read a book as a child it becomes part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your life does.

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