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Originally Posted by Moejoe
In my 'early' school days all the teachers were male and we had to call them 'brother' (on account of them being monks) - Catholic school, don't ask  |
I only had a sister. I never had a problem with her, but I know a lot of people did (like my little brother
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Originally Posted by Elsi
When I was five, my daddy took me to the public library to get my card and show me where all the good books were. I was already reading well above my age, so my daddy told the librarian that he didn't want her to push me toward the primary books. If I picked up one that was too hard for me, I'd figure it out on my own. It wasn't a month later that I was standing at the checkout desk on the verge of a veritable temper tantrum (I am a redhead, after all), tearfully insisting that my daddy had told me I could take home any book in the library and she wasn't supposed to stop me. The librarian picked up the phone and called my daddy to get *him* to explain to me that no one was allowed to take a volume of the encyclopedia out of the library.
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We always were allowed at all the sections of the library. And I usually went every saturday as I was only allowed to bring home 3 books at a time...