You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way.

Meg Medina
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We all have the ability to create our own memories. When we are young, we are very impressionable. We are full of wonder and wonderment. It was this state that the author is speaking of.

We remember everything that happens to us, no matter how small or large it may be. Like books that you read as a kid, it is the first time that you remember reading something, but it remains with you forever. That excitement of first reading something is never forgotten.

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