Early on, I became aware that something about me was a little different. On my very first day in kindergarten, a teacher trotted me out in front of the 2nd-graders, to demonstrate that I could read and write; so why couldn’t all of them? Nobody remembers how I learned, but I wasn’t about to wait for school to embark on the journey of reading. I impressed—or irritated—the “big kids” by spelling long words like “Mississippi.”
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