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Can you describe what he-man looks like?

Okay. He-man. Extremely muscular, huge biceps and thighs and legs and in a tiny speedo type undergarment,

if you will, or outfit a costume and a breastplate, an armor breastplate that looked like something from Viking era.

And shoulder length blonde hair.

A muscled white guy.

Yep, yep, yep. Muscle Viking-ish white guy.

This is Wiley Eason. Her son, Menelick, was born in New York City in 1981.

I don't know where he developed this superhero toy fascination.

It might have been a nursery school. It may have been with some of his other friends,

but he was totally into them.

I can also remember one of the his first multisolubic word was collection as in get the whole collection.

And I really couldn't figure that out because we didn't have a television.

We didn't have a television for the first three years of his life.

And the only reason we got one was the neighbors told us that we would never get a babysitter.

We never get a teenage babysitter if we didn't get a television.

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