When I was a child, my favorite bedtime story was Dr. Seuss' Horton Hatches the Egg. I remember my mother sitting on the edge of my bed reading about this amazing elephant whose personal creed was a very important lesson for me.
"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant…" my mother would read and then I would join in to finish the line, "An elephant's faithful one hundred per cent!"
I remember it not just because Theodore Geisel was such a wonderful writer and storyteller, but because of the whole experience, with my mother taking on different voices in the reading. The memories and emotions this evokes in me are so powerful that no matter where I am or what's going on, any reference to that book, character or author and I'm immediately transported back more than 50 years to that small bedroom in Brookline, Mass.
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