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Reading and writing have played a big role in my life. I first remember learning to read before preschool. I always turned on the captions for the shows I watched, so I could match what was being said with the captions being shown. Shortly after preschool started, I was reading books during class. I knew how to read before anyone else did. I even read during class, but sometimes I read when the teacher was talking and/or reading to the class (I didn’t realize I was doing it, I was very little). The teacher didn’t like this, and complained to my parents that I wasn’t listening during class.
The preschool, noticing that I liked to read, offered to put me in a class with older kids, who liked to read as well. I was put into the class, and I liked

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