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Letter From A Writer To Her Readers
Letter From A Writer To Her Readers
Letter From A Writer To Her Readers
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Paro Anand
My dear readers,
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But then, one day, something happened. I remember the exact moment,
the exact feeling even now, years and years later.
I had picked up a book called Born Free by Joy Adams. I was drawn into
the book, much like Alice down the rabbit hole. It was a book that I
wanted to be in, to be part of. This was the life I wanted to live, these
were the people I wanted to be. The book is the first part of a trilogy
about a family who adopt a lion cub and then set her free. I laughed and
wept and fantasised. After Iʼd read the trilogy, I wanted — no — needed
to read more. And so I did. And I havenʼt stopped ever since.
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What is it about reading that hooks people so much? You know the
answer to that, youʼve read it in a hundred posters in the library. But to
me, it is the ability to achieve every single dream and do every single
thing, go to every single place that I want to, from the comfort of my own
home. But not in a hit-the-pause-button-on-life kind of way. More in a
get-into-the-skin-of-the-character, live-the-world-of-words kind of way.
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when others read it, they believed it, too. So I wrote some more. And
more. I knew that this was what I was born to do.
And yes, I know what youʼre probably thinking. That youʼd rather live the
adventure than read about it. I get that, I think so as well.
So hereʼs the thing. Now that I am a writer with a capital W and I have,
well, not a paparazzi tail, but I have had a photo-shoot just this morning.
And there is a young man who is called Paro because he loved my books
as a child. I am travelling the world now, Iʼm off to Sweden to launch a
book Iʼve written with a Swedish writer and Iʼve performed stories with a
Zulu writer and an Eskimo. Iʼm living the best possible life. When I look
back, I realise that words got me here. Words I read, words I wrote and
words I dreamed of.
Paro Anand
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