One of my earliest memories of going to the movie theater is watching "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." It might've been because I cried when Harry was running away from the Basilisk, but in any case, that is my first memory.

The movie theater has always been a part of my life. I'm one of those crazy people that needs to get to the movie early enough to sit in the middle seat of the middle row in the theater. Growing up, it was a place to be with family all together and talk about what we watched afterward. It was also a way to escape. And although it was never too far away, I couldn't travel to Hogwarts just yet, so the movie theater gave me another life to live for a couple hours. As ticket prices went up, the times I went to go see a movie went down. I mean, thank God for Netflix, but nothing can compare to the movie-going experience.