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The Safari books contained short stories which gave us practice in reading English and the discussion that followed tapped into our critical thinking and interpretation. That was tough. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I remember one story that was titled BIRTHDAY. I remember our teacher turning black and blue trying to explain to us what a Birthday was. Picture this, you are teaching kids who have no idea when they were born. Forget the date or the month, most of us did not even know which year we were born, and our parents who should have known or kept those records, were completely ignorant of such important details of our lives. 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