Daily Monitor Sunday May 02 2021 Summary Barbara’s intellectual brilliance became obvious when she was about three years old. She had a favourite book that she’d read while seated on my laps, me being 10 years her senior. Advertisement The Allimadi family lost a dear, beautiful, intelligent, generous, and loving sister—full of wit and genius. Barbara’s intellectual brilliance became obvious when she was about three years old. She had a favourite book that she’d read while seated on my laps, me being 10 years her senior. When I turned the page one day, Barbara recited words—they didn’t match with the text. The pages had stuck together. Barbara was reciting words that should have been on a skipped page. When I opened a page randomly, she couldn’t read. She had memorised the entire book and all this time had pretended to read.