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Prologue

I come from Leuven, Belgium. For 11 years I had not grasped around the fact that the world was bigger than the little area I grew up in. At last, that changed when I heard the news we were moving to Switzerland, where I spend another 7 years. Soccer and art were always my two strengths in life, I couldn't do one or the other. I have always done both at a decent level, wherever I went or whatever language I spoke. However, I believe my reading and writing skill never really transferred fully into the English language. I had always been very good at reading from a young age in the Flemish language, my mother tongue. The reason for my lack of reading skills would be the change to a new language, life became more time consuming and honestly, I became lazier with things that are not on my mental priority list. However, I enjoy reading books that have films to go along with them as they function as a visual guide to me, prior and after reading the book. It is also hard for me to find...