Before I Could Read
A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Becoming
Kevin Patrick Wallace, DVM, DACVIM
ISBN 978-1-62967-349-3
“Every scar, every fall, every lonely mile…”
For most of his life Kevin Patrick Wallace felt like a square peg driven into a round hole. A school system that did not understand dyslexia called him stupid. He did not learn to read until he was twenty-eight, on the floor of a brewery.
Twelve years later he graduated from Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine and became a board-certified small-animal internist. This memoir is that path: learning to read as an adult, veterinary practice, family, and a return to farm life in Oswego County.
Before I Could Read is the full story behind a 1997 Cornell Chronicle profile — and behind the work of Mindful Living Sanctuary.
Kindle $9.95 · Paperback $19.95
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