my brother raleigh and i are less than two years apart in age, and when we were little, we spent hours playing together. i know that many little girls played with barbies as kids. not me, although we did have tea parties where we cut mini snickers bars into little slices and fed them to our dolls.
raleigh and i never cared much about the whole concept of gender-appropriate games. we moved back and forth from his toys to mine without a second thought. one of our favorite activities was playing with matchbox cars. raleigh had a book, which i think was a richard scarry, called "cars and trucks and things that go" and that was what we called it when we got out the cars. it wasn't good enough to just say we were playing with cars or even playing with cars and trucks. no. it was always cars and trucks and things that go.
i'm not sure what other "things that go" we had in our collection--most of them fell in the car and truck categories--but i do remember that raleigh had evil kanevil on a motorcycle and he could do a 360-degree loop on a track.
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