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Play Pretend

The narrator recalls playing pretend games with their grandmother as a child, using objects like vacuum tubes and Tinker toys as props to act out scenes from Star Wars and other stories. Their grandmother's favorite color was green, which they would incorporate into their imaginary games and scenarios. Now the grandmother is in poor health, with tubes in her skin, lying on the couch sobbing for hours like she did when a Beatle died, showing how much time has passed since their childhood games.

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Play Pretend

The narrator recalls playing pretend games with their grandmother as a child, using objects like vacuum tubes and Tinker toys as props to act out scenes from Star Wars and other stories. Their grandmother's favorite color was green, which they would incorporate into their imaginary games and scenarios. Now the grandmother is in poor health, with tubes in her skin, lying on the couch sobbing for hours like she did when a Beatle died, showing how much time has passed since their childhood games.

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Dustin Sipes
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Play Pretend Her favorite color is green. Ironic, as that is now the tinge of her skin.

The woman with the voice like a well-kept piece of 1965 Beatles vinyl Help! I need somebody to drag her off of this sobbing couch and back into reality. She wailed for hours when Harrison died. So odd, to see these tubes in your skin. The last tube we saw together came from a vacuum next to the bookcase with magazines with pictures of John Cusack on the front. I pretended it was a futuristic gun I had just watched Lassie Goes to War. How time flies, grandmother, like an X-34 Landspeeder across the carpet in your tiny apartment. So many things we would play pretend, and the works of Lucas were no exception Tinkertoy lightsabers were a must, and like Obi-Wan's, they were always green. Her favorite color was green.

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