I actually discovered the TLM through one of Father Stedman's missals, late 1970s, and had to wonder why the Church got rid of it. I would ask why the Novus Ordo could not be celebrated in Latin in our parish, and was just dismissed --- "it would be a novelty", one young priest told me. I then would drive 2 hours each way some Sundays to a Latin Novus Ordo, and finally, on Easter Sunday 1987, went to my first TLM at an SSPX-affiliated chapel. The rest is history.