reading, the greatest gift

My grandmother taught me to read by reading to me. I was probably about three when I would sit with this huge volume of Grimm's Fairy Tales and read the afternoon away. Don't know what I would do if I couldn't read? I couldn't even imagine such a life!

It is something I so take for granted, and yet so many are out there living in shame and fear. Without this ability our world remains unsafe and more than simply by the fact that not being able to read can cause bodily harm to self and others. In the words of Thomas Jefferson:

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expect what never was and never will be. . . The people cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe."

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