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When she was seven, when she would visit her grandmother,
Alexa would look through the books that her grandfather had owned back when he was alive.
What she liked especially was finding the books where he'd made little notes in the margins.
So that was the part that was really, you know, compelling.
Because there were hints about who he was.
Exactly.
And a lot of times they were really critical.
He would just, like, he would write, "I steadfastly disagree" or something like that.
Wow.
Or he would write, "Ah," if he really liked something.
As a kid, over the course of about a year,
she systematically divided the books into two piles, the ones with markings and the ones without.
And then she tried to read all the ones with markings.