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I remember we had a set of encyclopedias, bought back in 1985 by my parents to help with school. I still remember those gold edged pages, the worlds of knowledge in them. I must have read nearly all of it by the time I was in high school. Of course, anything about Russia was already out of date by then but still, I loved those books.
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I had a set to, this old lady who babysat me early on in my life would have me read them and gave them to me when I moved away. I'd read them all by the time I was ten, which left me knowing a vast majority of what they tried to teach me in high school involving history or geography.