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Rebecca Holden's avatar

Such a fabulous read! I found this part fascinating: "It’s possible that being a right-handed child of two left-handed parents, I couldn’t get as much early mirror-training with handwriting."

My husband is the right-handed offspring of left-handed parents, and he's the most left-biased right-hander I have ever met - he's not ambidextrous in his writing, but doesn't really seem to mind which hand he uses for most other tasks. However, he always wields a spoon left-handed - and he ties his tie as a left-hander, because his dad had taught him. 😍

I'm left-handed and find myself having to 'translate' right to left whenever I'm learning anything new. When I was teaching my craft I would make a point to demonstrate both right- and left-handed, because I remember when I'd first learned I'd had to work it out for myself. I'd been the only leftie in a class of right-handers with a right-handed instructor, and didn't want anyone to be in that position under my instruction!

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Kat River's avatar

I loved reading this. The photo of Jana is also so beautiful. I stopped and stared (In the least creepy way haha!) Just beautiful! Also can relate to the pencil grip. I can't do it any other way haha!

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