write an autobiography of an English dictionary
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It was his 11th birthday. I was to be his present.
His uncle had a contact in the agency.
I am the first copy of the new edition. Between the hardcover bindings, my pages hide words that have been lost for countless years, and some that have been newly formed. I am the bridge between old and new. I am the biggest book of words ever printed in one copy. I am a dictionary of the 22nd century.
Unique: (adj) Unlike anything else; being the only one of its type.
Wrapped in shiny paper, I travelled in the uncle’s bag. I was to come out of the wrappings on the given day and surprise my First Reader. I was to be his source of knowledge; I was to be his friend.
Little did I know, people don’t usually get along, as you’d hoped.
On his birthday, wrapped in the shiny paper I was handed to him. The paper was hastily torn off to reveal my hardbound cover. The words read there
Oxford Dictionary
22nd Century Edition
I greeted him well. My hardbound back made sure I don’t slouch. I met his eyes head on. He opened me up, rifled through a few of my pages and ended up tossing me aside.