Imaginary Childhood used to be a child pretending to be grown up. I used my credit cards, played with my bank account, and paid my bills I
as
if it
were
all
part
some big game. "Look at me," I would say "I'm quite grown up now."
of
but inside I was still a child. Then overnight it seems I became a grown-up ,
pretending to be a child. I had myself convinced that was still a child
I
and that I would never grow up. Then I came face-to-face with someone the age I imagined myself to be still. And she looked up to as if I were
-Sherrie Piatt
me
old.
And I realized how different we were. She was young and I
w^as
free.
grown and
mature.
And my imaginary childhood ended.
—Lori Pettibone
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