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7. I was always fascinated with things that happened before I was born

Even when I was just 5 years old, I loved to look at dates on coins, and go through my grandmother's collection of old calendars and license plates (when the actual plate was replaced every year). A little later, I loved to listen to my grandfather's stories about chasing after Pancho Villa in Mexico, and looking at beautifully engraved postage stamps from days gone by, especially if they had dates on them. I loved history so much that my mom bought me a child's encyclopedia of US history in 1969, which I read from cover to cover.