No epiphany here.
I learned to read Ukrainian in first grade in a WW-II refuge camp run by the UN in Germany. At the time, my parents probably did not have a single book, at least not one I can remember. Consequently, they did not read to me. There were a few books in the family in the years that followed. I read those on my own.
Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)