I've developed a new appreciation for literacy that would have totally redefined my learning experience during grade school had I made this realization earlier. ... As my seven-year-old self sat around a bright blue table amongst other first graders racing to solve simple math problems of addition and subtraction in order to win pieces of candy, literacy was being instilled in my unaware brain. ... At Sashabaw Middle School I was building on the base literary skills I had developed at Pine Knob, at this point my motivation behind attempting to receive good grades was more personal, getti...

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