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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: An observation
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 05:14:10 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM () says:
-
- >> enjoyed all her toys thoroughly, especially the See N' Say from Auntie
- >> :). She's just about coordinated enough now to stick her pacifer in
- >> her own mouth, so it was fun to torment her by holding Peek-a-boo
- >> Ernie just out of her tiny reach.
- >
- >The kid likes TOYS? Watsamatter with her? When ours were tiny like
- >that, they'd make their own. That is, we'd go out and buy them
- >something like a See 'N' Say, and they'd think the best part of the
- >toy was the box it came in.
- >
- Well OF COURSE it is! Cats and kids have the best taste in toys.:-)
- Once, when my parents bought a new television - a monster console job - my
- sister and I totally ignored the set for days and played with the box it came
- in. The set died ages ago, and I don't even remember what it looked like, but
- I do remember that box - especially after my sister and I got through taking
- our boxes of crayons to it.:-)
-
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