Re-learning to Read
Turning to books to save my life again
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7 min readApr 11, 2024
Last week my sister told me that she viscerally remembers the moment she learned to read. One moment she didn’t understand the marks on the page; the next (seemingly) she knew they were words, and they made sense to her.
I don’t remember the instant I learned to read, but I remember that I spent my childhood inhaling books like they were…