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I was born in 1986 in a literary translator and writer family. As the cliché goes, translation and languages are "in my blood" - I was raised with Bulgarian, English and Spanish lullabies and the rattling sound of a typewriter. I started studying English in kindergarten before I can even remember, as early as 3 years old - in 1989. That same year Communism came crashing down in Bulgaria, and American popular culture slowly, but surely pervaded our country. So, as kids, we would listen to more and more music in English, watch movies in English, play video games in English. Even all kinds of computer/TV/appliance/phone/other menus, guides and manuals were in English. This type of "learn quickly or stay in the past" environment (combined with some private lessons) really helped boost my English language skills... This, together with my early interest in the rattling typewriter (and subsequently, a primitive early 90's PC), led me to follow in my mother's footsteps in a publishing house...