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“I first read [Moby Dick] at age seven.”
Woah, that’s impressive!
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I got my first pair of eyeglasses at six, and the world was my oyster (I was blind as a bat and doing really, really poorly at school...so my parents took my for a eye exam, and voila! I was already too far behind in math to ever catch up, though)
The first book I remember reading was about the Mercury 7 astronauts which I don’t really remember all that well what was in it, but the SECOND book I read has stuck with me my whole life: “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”.
I distinctly remember getting my first library card...that was really important!
Heh, funny how things go. My whole life, I have been able to read nearly everything, and I think I have skill at writing. But I was a dunce at math. Never got higher than a “C” in all my years of public education, and only once. Went to summer school for math year after year, with no visible effect.
But I could read anything, spell nearly anything and express myself well on paper. When I was in the Navy, I took the SAT tests to apply to colleges when I got out, and got great verbal scores and lousy math scores. Eh. So what did I go into, Literature?
No. Chemistry. Eh. Go figure.