A young British boy reading outside the ruins of a bookshop after suffering bomb damage during the Blitz.
London – October 8, 1940.
Sometimes I picture young Astor pausing after destroying some random city or something, picking up some books. He had to acquire a love of reading somewhere, right? And then I his father finding a book hidden in his room or catching him reading it and ripping it up ala Matilda? Hnng.
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