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The Longest Shortest Time

Imaginary Friends & Kids

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

My measuring friend, thing, was Pepto.

0:11.4

His name was Jack Easter.

0:13.8

It's Amy, the boy gorilla.

0:16.1

Her name was Charlie.

0:18.4

Sometimes Charlie was a boy.

0:20.2

Sometimes Charlie was a girl.

0:21.9

But it was always Charlie.

0:24.4

And he looked like Jack Tripper from the race company.

0:31.0

By the age of seven, 65% of kids have had an imaginary companion.

0:36.0

And even into adulthood, they remember those friends, like Pepto.

0:40.5

Apparently, he looked like Casper, the friendly ghost, meets Mighty Mouse.

0:45.1

Peppto even had an imaginary job.

0:49.2

I can still see him really differently.

0:51.5

This small red building that I knew in my heart is where Pepto worked.

0:57.3

What did Pepto do there?

0:58.8

I have no clue, Andrea.

0:59.9

I want to know.

1:01.1

I don't know.

1:03.9

I was a pretty lonely and interpretive, and creative, and anxious kid.

1:07.9

So I watched a lot of cartoons and also in pretty sure that my parents helped

1:12.6

my anxiety and my bowels with Pepto.

1:16.4

Also, do the math, and I think that's how Pepto got his name and got his comforting

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