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So I have to admit something to you.

I have an obsession, and I know exactly who to blame for this obsession, my grandmother.

It all started one afternoon, shortly after my eighth birthday, when my grandmother picked

me up from school.

This itself wasn't unusual, my grandmother would often pick me up with an egg glue cooler

in her back seat packed with the classic grandmother lunch, sliced fruit, chocolate milk, and a

baloney sandwich cut into perfectly crustless triangles.

We eat that special lunch in her car in the parking lot of a movie theater before going

in, or we take it to the Fairyland amusement park.

I still remember waving proudly to my grandmother while riding the Jolly Trolley.

Those special afternoons my grandmother are some of the fondest memories I have of my

childhood.

Now, on this particular day, the day this obsession began, while we ate our car picnic

in the parking lot before seeing the black stallion, my grandmother asked me what I got

from my birthday.

I told her a new Atari game, and $47 in cash.

What have you done with the money?

She asked.

I don't know.

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