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8. My love of reading is due to Mad Magazine

Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:10 PM

Apr 2014

Same story, when I was 5 my cousin Dave (a sophisticated 10) gave me a box of old Mad magazines. I spent days looking at the pics and begged my Mom to teach me to read so I could read them. Mom was an elementary teacher and did not want me to be "bored" in first grade so she refused. Couple months later when I finally got to first grade I was probably the fastest kid in the class to learn to read and I've loved reading ever since.
Years ago I got the entire collection of Mads from the beginning to the late 90s on CDs, priceless.

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