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M.E. Proctor's avatar

Thank you for steering me toward Ramona, that was fun! We used to play what we called the"dictionary game" when I was a kid. One of us would grab the Larousse dictionary from the bookshelf, open it at random and start reading the definition. First one to guess the word, gets a point. Yes, we were cheap! No need to buy board games, lol.

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Susan Oleksiw's avatar

I'm willing to guess a lot of writers have faced teachers who found them intimidating and did their best to thwart their growth by exuding disdain. Sad, but here we are anyway. My parents never refused me any book in their library and only later asked how I liked it. I spent wonderful days paging through books way above my age and reading level, stretching myself.

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