What I Learned About My Adult Self by Rereading My Childhood Favorites

A look back at old stories through new eyes

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As a kid growing up in suburban Pennsylvania in the ’90s, I lived for Silent Sustained Reading, or SSR, that point in the school day when the teacher asked us to clear our desks of everything but a book. This was typically also the point when kids tended to become a little…