A lot of my reading came by accident. I got Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for Christmas when I was in the third grade. Mom would read Tom Sawyer with me, then stopped. We lived in the country, gravel road, nearest house a half mile away through woods to the next road. I was alone out there until my folks got home from work at about 10:00 PM on weeknights.
Well, the only way I was going to find out what happened to Sawyer and Finn was to read it myself, and I had time. I literally learned to read then. Went on 'til we moved into the city when I was in the fifth grade, and by then I regarded books as great friends.
May not have happened if my folks weren't leaving an 8 year old alone in the country all that time.'
After I was 10 I spent a lot of time with one or the other of two bachelor uncles, much of that in the country. Thank God for the books.
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Funny how that works.
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