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David Scott Lynn lived & grew up in Dolton, Illinois, the first suburb south of Chicago on the way to Indiana via the Calumet Expressway.

It all started in 1st Grade at five years old. My 1st Grade Teacher, Ms. Barbara Hozinsky, was teaching the Phonics Reading Method. But the new reading system, the Look / Say Method of Reading, was being promoted in schools. So she was wisely teaching both.

Although I did not understand it at that time, I noticed that the Phonics Method (a long-standing tradition in the American School System) required much deeper and more analytical thought compared to the very superficial level of thinking of the Look / Say Method. (Look / Say had the stars: Dick, Jane & their Dog Spot.) But I did not yet even know what “analytical” was! But the difference was obvious.

But at 12 years old in 8th Grade, I was in Military School and began learning about communism. At 16, I knew enough to write an essay for my Junior High School Communications class titled “Dick & Jane is a Communist Plot.”

In 2nd Grade, walking back and forth to school, and for whatever reason, I started having “conversations” with myself about what I would many years later learn were “philosophical” in nature. Yet to my knowledge, at the time, I had never even heard of philosophy.

Although at the time I did not name it, it started taking shape with my then Bubble Theory of Human Relationships.

I was, apparently, not too happy with my observations of what was happening between my parents. And I had some bad experiences with schoolmates. (Maybe I’ll tell you about the Book Report Gone Wrong a little later. THAT was a life-changing event!) But I was perplexed by why so often, two people could be in the very same room, having the same experience together, yet have completely different interpretations or opinions about what really happened.

It was very frustrating to me to watch as my parents had such differing impressions and reactions to or about something that had just happened.

I started visualizing human beings as floating around in their own transparent “bubbles.” My Big Philosophical Question was (even though I did not even know what “philosophy” was yet), did human beings actually have relationships with each other? Did they, from within their individual Life Bubbles, really and truly interact with other people in their own respective Life Bubbles?

OR … did they live completely in isolation within their own bubble and occasionally, their bubble would bounce up against another person’s bubble, and it would LOOK like they were having a “relationship.” But in reality, there was no real relationship going on? That the “relationship” or “interaction” was purely an illusion.

This, I guess, borders on solipsism, where everything a person perceives is created by their own consciousness, and that there can be no certainty that there is anything “truly out there,” outside of one’s own mind.

Imagine walking around thinking about THAT kind of stuff when you’re 6 or 7 years old, in 2nd & 3rd Grade! (My Mom said I was born 13 years old!)

MORE LATER!!!