Can You Imagine the Pain

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If you really want to help a child, teach her to read, listen to him read every single night, or go to a gradeschool and teach the children how to read as a volunteer. You will be welcomed with opened arms.

Words mean so much to those of us who are word dreamers, word-lovers, 
word jugglers, word players, word-doers,  But what about those of us who cannot read? Is it no wonder that our world is so different than yours? Can 
you fathom the pain of watching others playing with their tablets, and cell phones?  Can you imagine the horror of waiting for a teacher to call on me to read a sentence  when I am in fifth or sixth grade, and do not understand any 
      of the squiggles or dots or lines?  They mean everything to others, but
       nothing to me.  So I make as much of a nuisance of myself as I can
                Before it is my time to read, hoping and praying
                        The teacher will get so exasperated 
                              that she will throw me out of her 
                                kingdom before reading class
                                    begins.  I do not want to
                                        face the wrath
                                           of my classmates
                                               if they find 
                                                 out and
                                                  make fun
                                                   of me....
                                                   "F......You!"
                                                     I yell at
                                                     the 
                                                      tea-
                                                       ch-
                                                        er.

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