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📚 "Speak Friend and Decode: How 8-Year-Old Me Cracked the Moon Runes Before Second Breakfast"
When I was eight years old, I received my very own copy of The Hobbit. I opened the cover, and there was a treasure map! A real map, right there in my new book! I was hooked from the very first moment.
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📚 "How I Met Bilbo Baggins And What I Found In His Hobbit Hole."
I first met Bilbo Baggins when I was eight years old.

I grew up in Midwestern America in the early ’70s on a farm about ten miles from the nearest small town. We had electricity, running water, and basic comforts, but we lived in a manner that today we would call mostly off the grid. We grew a significant part of our food in two huge gardens, raised livestock, and relied on ourselves for most of what we needed. We had dogs and horses, and a motley crew of feral cats that hung out in the barn.

I spent a lot of time by myself. It was quiet, peaceful, even idyllic, but also, at times, a little lonely...
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