... knowledge and meanings of things around us. In a way, we do start reading from the day we are born. I don't mean that we actually read a book, but rather that we start reading the behavior and characteristics of our parents and surroundings. As we get little older, we start reading books to learn our ABCs but we never understand that reading is a crucial part of our ... it was necessary. When I was young, I was in this program from the local library that awarded you on how many books you can read over the summer. The way they examine the number of books you read was by having to write a...

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