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"I read my books aloud before they were published."
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"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."

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"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."
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