Ienjoy reading. I guess I wouldn’t be in this profession if I didn’t.

When I was 5 years old, I told my dad he no longer had to read to me. From that point on, I slept with numerous books under my bed for convenience. I slept with a touch lamp on and didn’t sleep in the dark until I was nearly out of high school, not because I was afraid of the dark but because I’d often fall asleep reading.

Growing up, I mostly read nonfiction, such as books about history. I recall borrowing the Time Life series on the American Civil War from then-Pleasants County Sheriff David Kelly (now the commissioner of the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation). I was also into science fiction, checking out books from my elementary school library by Issac Asimov.

I spent a lot of time at the Pleasants County

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