I grew up poor (not now days cable tv, 2 tv's and game consoles poor) but my patrents drove a rusted out old for econoline van in the 70's with 1 black and white tv that was an onld hand me down and use a huge antenae and all my cloths and our furniture was hand me downs.
We lived in the cascade mountains and our nearest library was 40 minutes drive and $10 per person membership fee.
My great exposure to reading wasnt the library but my dad working over time so that he could go down to the nearest used book store and get 4-5 books a month and by the time that i moved out dad had a library of over 500 books, these days the lack of reading isnt because they cant afford it.. its about priorities.
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