The affliction of language and how it’s used.
I would be ashamed of this story if I wasn’t five years old when it happened.
I could read when I was four and could read pretty well by the time I was five. I have always loved reading - my mother is a reader and I wanted so badly to have a relationship with books like she did…so I learned to read.
Sesame Street and the beautiful librarian at the downtown Atlanta Metro Library, who read books to us, had a lot to do with that.
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