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By unlocking the door to (name) past, one

sees his thoughts and actions when they first

took hold of his persona. This essay serves

as a key to that door and to my current

personality.



The first beloved books in my life were the

Sesame Street Encyclopedia volumes. At

three, I wasn't old enough to read them, but I

always wanted to have them read to me. In

fact, I memorized the ten volume set so when

my parents would skip some pages I would

ask them to read what they skipped. After

learning to read on my own, my favorite book

became the anatomy volume in the Charlie

Brown Encyclopedia. Courtesy of a

supermarket book offer, I was the only

kindergartner who knew about fertilized egg

cells. As I grew older, I continued to read

largely because reading taught me so much

outside of what we learned in school.



Since kindergarten, my extensive reading also

originated my various interests, especially in

science. Living within walking distance of the

library, I went there every day, enabling me to

dabble in a different subject during each visit.

By the fourth grade, I had read all the

chemistry books containing fewer than 200

pages, by the fifth grade I was reading about

Einstein's Theory of Relativity. During that time

period, I became so interested in astronomy

through Odyssey Magazine that I sold holiday

cards door-to-door in order to buy a telescope.



Reading also helped me in school. A little

ingenuity didn't hurt, either. For example, as

part of my third grade reading grade, I needed...