Actually, I’m not a big fan of puzzles, jigsaw and crossboards, but I remember in my childhood I had a huge amount of them, and my parents were buying me them, but I couldn’t solve them. And I remember the process, I got a new puzzle, I couldn’t solve it, and I just forgot about it. So this process was continuing all the time. I got a new puzzle, couldn’t solve it, forgot about it, and without that process I really collect a big collection of puzzles, but I have not done them. But until I was 6 years old, my father bought me a puzzle, and it was a picture of London, and you need to build it with lots of little details, and it was about 100 puzzles. It is not a lot, but I also want to mention that I wasn’t a genius kid, I wasn’t a kid that has astutes, and I couldn’t solve a lot of puzzles, and I tried my best, and when I just saw all the details I understood that I will not solve it. So this is how I managed to solve this sophisticated puzzle, and I really put a lot of tenacity in, and after 3 days I really solved it, and I was proud of myself. My father was also proud of myself, and I felt myself like a genius, and I was really happy because when you have lots of puzzles that you couldn’t solve, and now you solved your first puzzle ever, I felt myself amazing, and also I wanted to solve more and more, but I don’t know, that passion got very fast.
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Actually, I'm not a big fan of puzzles, jigsaw and crosswords, but I remember in my childhood I had a huge amount of them, and my parents were buying them for me, but I couldn't solve them. I remember the process: I got a new puzzle, I couldn't solve it, and I just forgot about it. This process continued all the time. I got a new puzzle, couldn't solve it, forgot about it, and through that process, I really collected a big collection of puzzles, but I had not completed them. Until I was 6 years old, my father bought me a puzzle, and it was a picture of London. You needed to build it with lots of little details, and it had about 100 pieces. It's not a lot, but I also want to mention that I wasn't a genius kid; I wasn't a kid with great skills, and I couldn't solve many puzzles. I tried my best, and when I saw all the details, I understood that I would not solve it. This is how I managed to solve this sophisticated puzzle. I really put a lot of tenacity into it, and after 3 days, I finally solved it. I was proud of myself. My father was also proud of me, and I felt like a genius. I was really happy because when you have lots of puzzles that you couldn't solve, and now you solved your first puzzle ever, I felt amazing. I also wanted to solve more and more, but I don't know, that passion faded very quickly.
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