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6 | October• 2018

Letters

READERS’ COMMENTS AND OPINIONS

Stories About Real People

Growing up in the 1980s, some of my
earliest and fondest memories are of

stretching out on a lawn chair perusing
Reader’s Digest with my grandmother. For
hours we’d share jokes and articles and

enjoy the magazine together. I taught
myself to read by sitting through decades
of issues lying around my grandmother’s

house. I was alwaysamazed the stories
were about real people. I felt I knew them.

As an only child in a pre-internet era, the
connection meant a lot to me. LAURA MOORE

AugusteditionarrivedandMumand

Dadwereaway,inaquietmoment

Istartedlickingthroughitovera

morningcofee.Well,thecopynow

has sticky tabs highlighting articles.

Iamwaitingtoshowmyhusband

(‘O ver-E xercisi ng Ca n Be Bad for

You’, ‘Home Improvements’ and

‘Road Rage’) and some

thatIwanttokeepfor

myself (‘5 Harmless

Habits that Could Give

You O s t e op or o s i s’,

‘Ca n You Spot Fa ke

News?’ and Life’s Like

hat). I thoroughly

enjoyed reading the

LET US KNOW

Ifyouaremoved–or

provoked – by any item

in the magazine, share

your thoughts. See

page 8 for how to join

the discussion.

JokesfromDad

hanksforyourcornycollection
ofDadJokes(Life’sLikehat,
September).MynameisAmy,and
every morning when my dad got me
upforschool,hewouldsay“Ready,
Aim? Fire!” Yes, apparently for him,
this never got old. AMY FLANIGAN

’Fessing Up

Aconfessionup
front: my parents
keep asking me to
subscribethemto
Reader’s Digest and I
havebeenarealcynic
about it. So, when the