Writer's Block: Forbidden Reading

[pynkbyrd]

When I was in seventh or eighth grade, I found this book called Billy and Betty at the dollar store, only then there weren't dollar stores. I just remember the store being a Big Lots sort of place and the books were cheap, and at the time, I bought about three or four, one of which was this book by Twiggs Jameson called Billy and Betty.

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[clhawks]

My parents would have had to pay attention to notice me reading something, however, they rarely did. I had my nose in a book from about nine years old, I found fiction far more entertaining a prospect than my own family life. I would have thought The Exorcist was probably a no no for a ten year old, but they didn't notice, or they didn't care, either way, I read it and frightened the life out of myself with it. ;)