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Books were a part of my life from a very early age. My mother, Hattie Stanley Springer, had been a second grade teacher and made sure there were always plenty of books in the house.

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She is the one who taught me how to read way beyond my grade level when I was in second grade. I loved all kinds of books -- even comic books. I read them in the prescription room of my father’s drug store, when I was supposed to be checking in the new shipment of magazines each week.

I began to draw and write my own comics, with speech balloons for the dialogue.

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I filled dozens of notebooks with my illustrated stories.

I was also fascinated with chickens. On my father's side of the family, my Grandma Springer, Uncle Ray, and Uncle Bill had a big chicken farm on Long Island, NY. We had a two week vacation on the farm every summer.

Since I was an only child, and my bachelor uncles didn't have any children, my only playmates on vacation were the chickens. There were chickens on my mot