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Childhood Memories

Prompt: Childhood Memories
“I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
Write about this quote, which is about the author's childhood, and/or share with us an innocent, possibly fun-loving instance from your childhood that brings a smile to your lips.

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When my cousins mention something or other we did together, most of the time, that event or naughtiness--which is more like it--is erased from my memory. Could it be because I was the instigator, the starter of all mischief? Some of those things we did even made my serious mother laugh at them. Maybe because she didn't want to see my role in those. Just maybe.

Those memories, whether my mind has hushed them or not, my cousins insist that they were among the most precious and enduring experiences of their childhood. Also, it may just be that, in childhood, fun and laughter is found in the littlest of things.

For example, I had made up a game only privy to my cousins and I. It would go something like this. "Whoever at the dinner table says, 'tasty', he or she is going to grow donkey ears." Of course, each time, that trick word always changed before we sat down at the dinner table. Rarely we kids sat separately from the adults, partly because we had a very large dinner table, and when family members visited us, we sat at the table altogether. Since we kids knew the trick word, we wouldn't say it, but an adult would. Then, we would all burst into laughter and keep on giggling to the amazement of the adults, who never knew about our private little games.

Then, there are more positive memories like going to the fair the whole crowd of us with two adults as chaperones. To this day, I feel for our chaperones wherever they took us. Those trips were so much fun! Especially, when there was a fair in town. This one time, at the fair, we all insisted to be in the same swinging thing, (I think they may be called swinging busses) that held several kids and the poor guy, who was filling those swings up on a first-come-first-served basis, had to empty one and lead those other kids to a different swing.

To this day, I stay in touch with my cousins, no matter how scattered they are all over the world. Since I didn't have any siblings, my cousins became very precious to me, not only in our childhood, but up to today.

And yes, it's true. Our memories together are like "found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant."