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Edwin's case story

Edwin tells us about his interests and how he uses the library overcoming his learning difficulties.

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Edwin

I am Edwin Foxton and I go to St. Andrews church twice a week and we do coffee after the service and I work at Margherita's which is in Rugby. I did come down and take some books out because they were showing the books of Rugby school and the parish church. I haven't used any videos yet but I will get round to it. I've got video myself. I like watching the old videos which was in the olden days. I used to go to Rugby College some time ago, I was there for quite a long time, and there was a class of us using computers.

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