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Growing up I always liked reading... Didn't realize how much I had read until the last few years thinking about how I read my son books now.
My mom has always been very well read, she wanted to go to
School to be a teacher, but for reasons beyond her she wasn't able to. She always had books in the house and my grandfather was the only person that I remember reading the newspaper in my family.
Mom used to take us to the magazine shop and let us each pick our own magazine or comic book, she would get one too. I used to get Archie, and I remember my mom used to get either a cowboy adult comic novel or a mystery adult comic novel. For reasons beyond my imagination my mom used to let me read her adult novels... Which could have very graphic pictures and descriptions of very adult subjects. I didnt realize then what those were, only cares about reading.
Mom also used to get Good Housekeeping in Spanish and I used to read the articles in it. Once there was an article about different ways to style hair for the beach, and one of them was Sexy... I didn't know what that was so I asked my mom, she didnt want to tell me and demanded to know where I had seen that word; imagine that, she would let me read the adult mystery comic novels with sex scenes drawn in them, but freaked out when I asked what sexy meant!!! My mom is too funny!
I also read my older sister's science book and did half of the experiments in the book, the ones that the ingredients were available to me.
Also read stories of the Bible, which explained to more about God and life than my catecismo teacher had.
When my dad brought us books from USA to start practicing English I read those too... But found the pictures so violent that I had to put them away for a while.
I don't know how many books I have read in my life, but I know there is so much more to be discovered in the wonderful world of them.
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