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To: Stan who wrote (94)	11/23/2007 1:42:40 PM
From: Stan	Respond to of 9626

I hated reading when I was young. I don't know how I managed to pass high school English. It must have been a combination of Cribb notes and asking friends who actually read the books. The only ones I knew I read were the ones we all read during class. However, when I was out of school, about 20 years old or so, I picked up "To Kill a Mockingbird" to read just to pass the time because I recognized the title from Sophomore English. I fell in love with it immediately. I can still remember Harper Lee's description of the summer heat that would wilt the stiff collars of the men by 9:00 in the morning. It was pure, harmless escapism. That book was a case of me enjoying the book better than the movie even though the movie is a stand-alone masterpiece.