Well, let me introduce myself; my name is Chris Rodgers and as a child I was rather cleaver and many times extremely squirrelly. Because of that my childhood was even more interesting than most children's. Many of the toys that characterized my essence when I was in the preteen years were the vintage models of the incredible G.I. Joes, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Matchbox Cars, and Cabbage Patch Dolls (and yes I did have names for them).

Let me talk to you about these toys in a little detail so you can get an idea of why they characterized my childhood so much. As a child I was extremely ill from birth until around 4th grade. Since I had such a problem with my health I really didn't socialize very much with many children (which may be why I am so outgoing now) but I sure knew how to have a blast with my toys. Sure, there were multitudes of toys floating from fad to fad but I knew who the true American hero was and that was G.I.Joe. Boy, I had such a great time with these toys! There was Joe and the evil Cobras (Man, they were tough ones). These two groups were formidable foes. I never understood why they would fight so much but I was sure that every time that they did I was

This power trip drove me incisively for many months until a D-Day of sorts occurred. One evening my brother had been washing in the bath tub when he decided get out and drain the water. My mother had noticed that he was doing this by hearing the rushing of water down the pipes as they passed her through the walls directly down stairs from where he was as she was making dinner in the kitchen. She then rushed up stairs to tell him to save the rest of the water in the tub, but she had come too late and the water had been lost. This was not a problem but she had to watch the stove downstairs so she explained to my brother that he need to draw some water into the bathtub and that he shouldn't make it too hot for me. Well, he did put water in the bathtub but he had forgotten to tell me two important articles of information: first, he had soaped down the bathtub rail so that he could slide his cars on it and into the water. This had been the very reason in my opinion why I took baths. I never realized that one must get clean in order to get out of the tub, I just figured that every boy in the world would take their cars and soap down the rail and run the fastest one on the track so they could go into a spiral death loop and crash into the wall where they would try to back up but descend into the water where if the death loop had not gotten them then the water would. Now

Unfortunately, around the second grade I realized that I my earlier longings of acceptance f

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