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How do you convey how much you loved the things you loved as a child?

Is it even possible?

I really liked Little House on the Prairie because it's cool to read about things that you've never done before.

I read the books when I was a kid, and I just loved them.

I found little town on the prairie, and I was hooked.

We know we never love anything the way we did when we were seven or eight.

Farmer boy is about an eight-year-old boy like me who grew up on a farm in New York.

Yeah, they used to live in this little hill sort of thingy.

I like that little house.

But is there a language to describe how deep this kind of love goes?

How formative it is.

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a pioneer.

You see their relationship blossom and see them go through

happy times and struggle together. It's like you're actually there when you're reading the book.

It's almost like the things we love work their way into our DNA and then seem to reappear at key

moments in our lives. The pandemic had, and I said, I haven't read those things in years. And I thought, well, I'm at home. Everything I was doing was canceled. I need to do something interesting. And I thought, well, then go back. I have time. I'll go read the Little House books. Some of you might recognize that voice. That's Alison Arngrim, the actress who played Laura's iconic nemesis, Nellie Olson, on the hit

television show, Little House on the Prairie. During lockdown, Allison started reading the Little House

books out loud on Facebook for anyone who wanted to tune in. So I got on Facebook and say,

okay, guys, the woman wrote nine books and I will read them all starting with Book 1.

Can you help me up? Can you help me? Can you hear me?

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