@BootsPlatypus I grew up reading excessively, my entire family likes to read and so my parents would take us to the library regularly to exchange books... we picked out our own books and read for pleasure / curiosity not because we were forced to.
@BootsPlatypus I taught myself to read at 3 yrs old- apparently one day I hid away with a book at preschool and then came home and announced that I'd figured out how to read and that was that.
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