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What was the one toy you wanted as a kid that your parents never bought you?
Submitted by Princess of Darkness.

there was a playground right across the street from my house when I was little, left over from when the administration building that's there now was a school. from a fairly young age I was allowed to go play over there by myself because my mother could see me from her kitchen window. it was pretty lame as far as playgrounds go, with just a swingset and a little monkey bar thing and a gross sandbox I would never touch, but it was better than nothing, and so after school I would go over there and play until she yelled out the back door that supper was ready.

on my way home one night, as I crossed the large field that seperated the playground from the street in front of my mother's house, I noticed that the first star of the evening had appeared, but no others. this was my chance. I closed my eyes in case other stars started to appear in my field of vision, because that would, of course, nullify the magic that was about to happen.

'star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight: I wish my mom would buy me a strawberry shortcake e-z bake oven'.

I continued on home, confident that I had followed the proper procedures for securing a bounty of easy-to-make, delicious cakes cooked by light bulbs. imagine my confusion, then, when it failed to arrive.

as an adult, I've often wondered if this great disappointment led me to become a pastry chef. it's more likely that I was always just predisposed to sugar and numbers and following directions, but wouldn't it be funny if that was true?