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>>Well, my mother was teaching me at age 5 in 1970 how to make simple things, and she was raised in the south in a very conservative setting. By age 7 I could make bacon and eggs without blowing up the kitchen.
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>Good on your mother. Curious who initiated that, if you remember. Did you express interest, or was it her agenda?
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>Tamar

From what I remember, it was mutual. Just like George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life", I was "born old". I wanted to do things adults did. So my mother taught me a number of things.