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Man Returns Book to the Library After 45 Years: 'It Had Always Been Left Lying Around'

Summary by Omroep Brabant
Staff at the library in Schijndel went back in time for a moment this week. A man came to return a book he had borrowed not ten, not twenty, but more than forty years ago. When librarian Ilona van den Bergen accepted the book, she had to take a second look. The original stamp card from the 1980s was still inside. "I find it very special," she says. "It is a textbook from the 1970s about plants and their dissection. The man said the book had alwa…
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Staff at the library in Schijndel went back in time for a moment this week. A man came to return a book he had borrowed not ten, not twenty, but more than forty years ago. When librarian Ilona van den Bergen accepted the book, she had to take a second look. The original stamp card from the 1980s was still inside. "I find it very special," she says. "It is a textbook from the 1970s about plants and their dissection. The man said the book had alwa…

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Omroep Brabant broke the news on Saturday, June 13, 2026.
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