Damn, remember when library fines were a nickel a week?

A mom was shocked when she tried to renew her driver’s license in her small Texas town — she had a warrant for $570 for an overdue library book she had checked out last year for her home-schooled children.

“I was so angry. I was sad and mad,” Kaylee Morgan told NBC News about the ordeal from a March 2023 book checkout from the Navasota Public Library in Grimes County, Texas. “The whole week leading up to court, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to laugh or cry.”

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