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To: elmatador who wrote (54076)	8/25/2009 3:39:52 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	3 Recommendations Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 217986

I read all the time. When we were little my Mom took my sister and I to the library each week and we could each check out three books, and return them on the visit the next week. We also had National Geographic magazine. I liked science and history books. My sister and I were allowed only one television program each night. I read the encyclopedia every day after school. For some reason I recall I started with CH-CZ and looped back through A after finishing Z. That was more fun than my homework. When I was in 6th grade my Granddad gave me a subscription to Forbes magazine. Every time I was with him, after he saw his last patient I'd take in the financial section of the newspaper and read the price from the day prior of each of his stocks he'd call out. He recorded the gain or loss on a book of grid paper. Then he'd discuss the economy and whether he should make any changes. I asked him a million questions. I read my Uncle's medical text books. I read my Dad's law text books. I even read the unabridged Dictionary and Black's legal dictionary. I got a subscription to Scientific American when I was in 7th grade. In high school I read the Economist magazine checked out from the school library along with all of the literature for school. The volume of books was such that I think most must have been surviving on Cliff Notes. My parents got Time magazine but I didn't like it much, although I read it occasionally when there was nothing better. My Mom read pieces of Readers Digest and used to read jokes to me from the magazine. I never understood what was funny about them. .