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Barry Markham — he can offer Chichi wealth and position.
Toby Nelson — he is Chichi's own kind, understands her.
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Papa David — wise friend, kindly advisor to all of his "children."
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Papa David has said: "In my little book here I have also my home. In my home I for many years, also, had like a family . . . even though no one in my home was my real son or daughter. God has been good to me, sending from time to time substitutes for the real children I would have liked to have had. . I thank Him every night for the blessings he has seen fit to bestow on me . . . Chichi, Toby, Douglas, Alice, Barry, and many others, are no less dear to me than if they had been my own flesh and blood."
David Solomon is known as Papa David to his friends and neighbors — the. people who love, trust and respect him — all up and down East Avenue, on New York's Lower East Side. The "little shop" Papa David speaks of is the Slightly Read Book Shop which has sheltered through the years, besides Papa David himself, many a homeless person, sick, frightened, needing the kindly comfort and guidance that are Papa David's very way of life.
First of these homeless ones was Chichi, a street waif who, many years ago, blundered into the shop. Locked out of her sordid" tenement home, the frightened and defiant girl sought shelter. But she found more than that — a permanent home, a lovable old man to whom she became as close as a daughter. Best of all, the opportunity and inspiration to change herself into a worthwhile human being.
Soon Toby Nelson, street boy and companion of Chichi's old life, came to the book shop too, learned to love Papa David, to believe his gentle philosophy.
Later, when Chichi had blossomed into radiant womanhood, others came into their fives. Barry Markham, a typical rich young playboy when they first knew him, who has changed and matured through knowing Papa David and Chichi. More recently, Douglas Norman, a writer, who, during an illness, was also sheltered in the book shop's living quarters. Now, Alice Swanson, Douglas' partner in
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