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Me and my Guardian: ‘I was hooked from the start’ Guardian readers, as told to Sophie Zeldin-ONeill © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ruskin Photos/Alamy It was the late 60s. Every Sunday during term time a small group of us would take the bus into Bristol, to a small coffee bar with a jukebox. We would buy the latest Italian coffee and settle down at a corner table with our packet of Disque Bleu cigarettes, a collection of six penny pieces for the jukebox and a copy...

Me and my Guardian: ‘I was hooked from the start’ Guardian readers around the world tell us how they first discovered the paper and what it has meant to them since LA woman reads the Guardian in her garden, two days after the 2017 general election. Photograph: Ruskin Photos/Alamy LA woman reads the Guardian in her garden, two days after the 2017 general election. Photograph: Ruskin Photos/Alamy Sun 9 May 2021 09.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 9 May 2021 09.01 EDT Chris Alexander It wa...