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I'm in the same boat as all those encouraged to read. My Mum read voraciously, and began reading to and with me before I started school. By the time I began, I could already read basic books (you know, "see spot run") and was busting to read more and more. I got my own library card at 5, and by the time I was 11 had read everything that interested me in the kids library, so my Dad gave me his card so I could get things from the Adult library. I was reading Steinbeck and Cronin by the time I was 12. Dad wasnt into reading that much but he always encouraged me to, as did Mum, and books were inevitably what was given at Christmas and birthdays.
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