At some point in grade school, I think around the time I'd have been in the fifth grade, I began picking up Reader's Digest for a quick story or two. It was in one of those issues where a piece on Anne Frank & her diary appeared. The piece contained a snippet of her diary. It was before we learned about her & her family, & the Holocaust as a whole, in school. I remember thinking that naming her diary, "Kitty", seemed odd, though I didn't focus on it & kept on reading the content. Of course, since that time, many more books have been written on Anne Frank as well as compilations of her writings, published as well DVDs & Amazon Instant Videos made.
I enjoyed writing back then too & I remember being encouraged. Here a young girl, just like myself (though she was a few years older than I was when I came upon her writing amid the other articles in Reader's Digest), had written something worthy of publishing & it was published.
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