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International Children's day

Apr 05, 2019 Teah Mogae

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We lose ourselves in books.. We find ourselves there too - unknown - The books we grow up with can actually influence who and what we become in the future 👩🏽‍🚒👩🏽‍🎨👷🏼‍♀️👮🏽‍♀️. I remember being facinated by an old and probably outdated medical text book my parent's had around the house and thinking, maybe one day the medical language would make sense to me😜. In highschool my career choices got influenced mostly by my friends' choices 😊. At some point I considered doing IT 👩🏽‍💻 and actuarial science👩🏽‍🏫 as I was good with numbers and a bit nerdy🤓. My grandpa's sudden...