Writer's Block: Toy story

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I do not, in fact, still have those toys. (Although it's possible they're still in the toybox in Dad's shed out back - the only thing of mine still on the premises and not in my own possession.) I had a little tiny girl doll and a stuffed Ernie doll (of Sesame Street fame) that for some reason, I always thought were in love. I also had various Barbie dolls and a Ken doll that for some reason, I lost his clothes and instead kept him dressed as a monk in Princess Leia's white polyester "rescue dress" from Episode IV - I routinely had two Barbies going after Ken and one of them would usually end up hanging by the neck from the Dream House balcony.

(Issues? Me? Pshaw.)

I do, however, have the first book (that the good) Grandma taught me to read, at the age of 3. I still remember sitting at the kitchen table on Christmas Eve 1975 and reading it back to her. Sure, it was pretty much memorization, but that's how we kicked it in the old days before Hukd On Fonics. *G*