 I grew up in a crowded Salvadoran immigrant household on Folsom Street in the Mission District. My name's Roberto Lovato. I'm an author, journalist, and professor of English. One of the adventures I wrote about in my memoir, Unforgetting, was that of joining a guerrilla army in El Salvador during the late 80s and early 90s. We were, you know, hiding from a fascist military dictatorship in clandestine hideouts, including clandestine homes. And during the very little free time we had sometimes, I carried the library with me when I would read and write, because the journey of reading and writing for me began at the library. So in my greatest adventures, the library was always there with me. And my story starts with SFPL.