As a boy I was a normal kid in many ways. I liked sports, playing outside, riding bikes, watching Saturday morning cartoons, football trading cards and comic books but there were peculiarities I possessed which my friends could not always understand. I was a reflective type of kid who would often times read not just comic books but also actual books. I was sometimes mesmerized by stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H.G. Wells. I loved reading about history and I followed the space program.
I also wrote much. At first it was simple class assignments but I also ventured into writing my own comic strip called Salt Shaker and as time went on I kept a record much like a diary to practice my creative writing techniques.
I was a big Peanuts cartoon fan and in the case of my own Salt Shaker comics I would draw them in 4 panels, much like the Peanuts strips appeared, then paste them into a large notebook for a collection.
As a result of these particular tendencies I became interested in pens, pencils and types of paper. If anyone wanted to abduct me as a young person, putting a pencil in my path would probably do the trick more so than offering me candy.
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