i apparently learned to read on my own -- my parents say they just came into my bedroom one night and found me reading aloud to myself. evidently i'd made the leap between the words my parents were saying and the words on the page spontaneously, with no coaching from them. (they'd assumed i was too young to learn to read yet.)
but that kind of thing does run in our family. my cousins Eric and Chris had me beat by at least a few months -- Eric was discovered spelling out "E-V-E-N-F-L-O -- Evenflo!" on the side of his bottle -- and my brother wrote a 25-page "novel" about Earth's epic battle with an alien race called the Exorlinxes when he was seven. single-spaced on regular notebook paper, no pictures. both our parents are published writers, as are at least two of my cousins and an aunt or two. and me, of course.
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but that kind of thing does run in our family. my cousins Eric and Chris had me beat by at least a few months -- Eric was discovered spelling out "E-V-E-N-F-L-O -- Evenflo!" on the side of his bottle -- and my brother wrote a 25-page "novel" about Earth's epic battle with an alien race called the Exorlinxes when he was seven. single-spaced on regular notebook paper, no pictures. both our parents are published writers, as are at least two of my cousins and an aunt or two. and me, of course.
we, uh, really like words.