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This was the book the speaker's mother owned with a red silk binding and gold stamping, which the speaker hid under their pillow around age three, hoping to absorb its contents through sleep.
My first memory of a book was I was fascinated with this red book my mother had. It had red silk binding and gold stamping. And I was about three and I hid it under my pillow because I thought if I sl...
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This was the book the speaker's mother owned with a red silk binding and gold stamping, which the speaker hid under their pillow around age three, hoping to absorb its contents through sleep.
My first memory of a book was I was fascinated with this red book my mother had. It had red silk binding and gold stamping. And I was about three and I hid it under my pillow because I thought if I slept on it, it would come into my head what was in it.
And it was my grandfather's book called Fox's Book of Martyrs.