I turn the pages of my father’s book.<\/p>\n
Grabbing my blankets,\u00a0 I get cozy in a nook.<\/p>\n
The soft moonlight caresses the first page.<\/p>\n
It smells of old age.<\/p>\n
The first sentence grabs my attention and I get sucked in.<\/p>\n
It was so silent I could hear\u00a0the drop of a\u00a0pin.<\/p>\n
Page after page, I kept turning into the after hours of the night.<\/p>\n
I didn’t stop until first morning light.<\/p>\n
Best adventure yet.<\/p>\n
The craziest characters I ever met.<\/p>\n
Who knew a book so old could be the best story ever told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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