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 always amazed 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