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Since the beginning of college I have realized that I no longer enjoy reading for fun. I am now always reading something that is not interesting to me, so it makes it feel more like work to read.

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I have always loved Country music and grew up learning words from Country songs I now enjoy going to concerts of all genres.

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I was helped with reading by my older cousins who would babysit me and now I am helping their children learn to read. I love the experience that I get from listening and helping all of them.

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My mom made sure to make time every night to read to me before bed and to make sure that I was understanding and performing well in school and I can't think her enough.

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I learn new words from people everyday. One person that I met is just two hours North of my hometown and says "pop" not "soda".

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As a pre teen I was very consumed in reading and learning, "what being a teenager" really meant.

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I taught myself to crochet when I was in high school and I felt like I was learning an entire new language.

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I have been gardening with my father since I can remember, anything from digging potatoes to trying to grow the largest cabbage in the state! I always loved hearing stories of his childhood.

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I loved looking at children's books and making up my own words that correspond with the pictures!

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Growing up with an older brother I always wanted to be doing what he was doing including trying to read books that challenged me and made me the reader that I am.

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Every Summer my family and I would travel to a new state or a new beach in the U.S. and learning the different cultures and terms people used for a word.

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Along my neighborhood that travels with I-70 there are endless amounts of billboards and I would always relate the words to the pictures.