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Discuss “The story of a couple of regular Joes”

CMU and Starbucks: America?s top two caffeine hubs. But both enterprises have similarities that go beyond overpriced products and rampant caffeine consumption. Just as Starbucks or any local coffee shop attracts its regular customers, CMU has established a community extending beyond tenured professors and hyperactive students. Walk down Forbes Avenue and you?ll find a writer penning a book that might be sold years later by CMU regular Bob the Book Guy.

Keep looking and you?ll see the businesswoman on her hurried morning commute ? just the lifestyle that CMU regular Peter the Playwright has chosen to reject. Both men have lived lives more enthralling than the books being sold by one and the Hunt Library archives surrounding the other. Nestled...

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