HUNTINGTON, W.Va.—When Michael Bare started working as a library assistant, he thought he would be helping with term papers or leading a book club. Instead, he spends most of his time assisting patrons in crisis with nowhere else to go. “They just want someone to talk to,” said Bare, 37, who has worked for four years at the library in this city of 46,000 on the Ohio River where West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky meet.

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Persons: HUNTINGTON, —, Michael Bare, “, ” Locations: W.Va, Ohio, West Virginia , Ohio, Kentucky