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I always relate books to my father. Since I can remember my father has always carried a book around anywhere he went. Sometimes the book is about math, other times about spirituality, physics, literature, etc. He really doesn´t have a specific preference about the book’s topic. He has always been the type of person who likes to know about everything, he says this enriches him as a person. The funny part about everything is that he carries his book around even though sometimes he knows he´s not going to be able to read it. Sometimes while waiting for a movie to begin, he reads his book. Other times he reads while he´s waiting for someone in his car. Sometimes he takes his book to a grocery store which makes no sense at all because he won´t read it. I tend to ask him, “Why would you bring a book here Dad?” and he always answers the same way, he says, “You never know son.” Sometimes even when he is driving and there is a red light, he grabs his book and starts reading the most amount of words he can. I remember once getting mad because he went to a competition of mine and instead of watching me play, I saw him reading his book. Some people may see this as a problem but I bet he never gets bored, it´s just his thing. The only problem is that through years he has been accumulating book after book and there was a point where there was no space for them anymore in my house. My mother couldn´t help the fact of keeping old rusty books at home so she told my dad to get rid of them. There was an argument about this and as usual my mother won. In spite of everything my clever father instead of throwing them away or donating them, he took them to his office. So there, lying in the shelf against the wall of his office, stand still my father´s old books. For some people these antiques would be valueless and just a pile of garbage, but for my father they aren´t. Each and every book represents for him a new lesson. I remember asking him once, “Why do you value books so much?” and he responded, “A good book has the knowledge of many years of study from different people, but you must know son that you won´t find the answer to your life in any normal book.” I was confused at his response but then he added, “You will find the answers inside of you where the most important book lies.”