Childhood game
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As a child, my friends and I came up with this very specific make believe world for us to play pretend at recess. It had something to do superheroes and each villain we fought had a backstory etc, etc. Cut to 20 years later, I was talking to my girlfriend at the time and she mentioned playing a game that was way too similar to mine to be an accident. It turns out that, even though we went to different kindergartens a town apart, she had a friend who played with my group one time and brought the game to their playground too. This isnt the weirdest story in the world, but this game stuck with both of us until we were in like 4th grade so it’s pretty cool that the game she loved so much as a kindergartener actually originated from my friend group a town over.
Date submitted:Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:08:29 +0000Coincidence ID:10215
