During the brief freewriting and clustering exercise we did in class on 2/6, I focused on my early childhood and my beginning efforts to read and write. The singular word that boiled down from my exercises was EFFECT. What drove me (and still does) to want to read and write was how it made me and others feel.
My parents were proud of me as I read aloud, they showed off my furtive writings to other people. They smiled a lot and this made me feel good. In addition, I found reading to be just about as entertaining as television and if I was clever, I could do both at the same time.
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