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What were your favorite games as a child? What did you like to do with your classmates or the neighborhood kids? How did that affect the person you grew to become?
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I am an only child. So a lot of my time growing up was spent alone. I really enjoyed reading as a child. Particularly from a two-volume set of fairy tales given to me by my grandmother and grandfather. I can still picture those books in my head. And they're now on my grown-up bookshelf along with some other childhood favorites waiting to be enjoyed by the next generation. I loved to play with my Barbie dolls. Their lives were something like an afternoon soap opera. It was a real treat on the occasions that I got to play with my cousin. I liked to play with my play-doh. I would pretend to be a chef and create rare play-doh entrees that my parents would be invited to sample. Never mixing the colors, of course. That smell still brings me back. I definitely enjoyed playing the evening games of Go Fish with my dad, even though he cheats. I loved making up my own games when I went to my Oma and Opa's and spent time in their basement with the pool table, the assortment of hats and large sectional sofa. I liked to color. I used to love 4-square in grade school. I didn't really get the opportunity to play a lot of board games growing up... but when I reached junior high my best friend and I used to play Mall Madness ALL the time. We also used to roller-skate in her basement. And sing karaoke. Funny that I would never do that anymore.
I'm much the same now. I have no problem entertaining myself, would never really say that I get bored. I can always find something to do. I enjoy the company of others on occasion, but don't *need* it. I *do* need alone time. Otherwise I start to feel stressed out. I'm independent. Alone, but rarely lonely. And my husband is one of the few (the only?) people that I don't mind being around constantly. I guess that's a good thing. :)
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