Meet the woman who took 73 years to return a library book — and wasn’t fined

Slipped behind other books was a lovingly worn copy of the 1929 children’s book “The Postman,” by Charlotte Kuh. Gregg’s mother had checked it out of a Silver Spring, Md., library in 1946, when Gregg was a toddler.

Nearly 27,000 days past its due date, Gregg, now 75, decided to return it.

From Meet the woman who took 73 years to return a library book — and wasn’t fined – The Washington Post