Best Imaginary Friends

by karey_ann
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April 13, 2009
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Ok, so over the three Christmas dinners, a few very interesting conversations came up. One such conversation involved all of the "older folks" talking about the "younger folks" past imaginary friends. Now, you may think that some character someone made up when they were five would have no bearing on a 28 yr. old's life . . . but when the imaginary friend's name was mentioned, the semi-adult's face would get a far-off look, then a look of recollection, then a twinkle would inevitably enter the eye . . . everyone still fondly remembers their imaginary friends! So who were yours, and what did they look like?

Typhoonagator!!!!

Ok, there was this book, One Monster After Another, and it was my FAVORITE book when I was little. After reading about the Typhoonagator, a monster who sucked up everything and then spit it out all over the place, I decided that this would be the ULTIMATE imaginary friend.

Dad: “Karey Ann, were you messing with my tool bench?”

Karey Ann: “It wasn’t me, it was Typhoonagator!!”

Mom: “Oh my God! What happened to your little brother’s hair? Is this egg?”

Karey Ann: “Mom, I don’t know what happened! Typhoonagator did it.”

A five year-old stroke of genius . . .

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My neighbor had a row of six foot tall bushes between his house and the next. We found some hollowed out spots in the bushes and used to sit in there for hours pretending it was a cockpit and all the branches were the levers. We would fly with Maverick and Goose while shooting down Ice Man.

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PUMPERNICKEL.

???? Not sure why I wanted to name my imaginary friend a seed? is pumpernickel a seed?? But yeah, I did. AND- pumpernickel was a “little person.”

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Charlie Kooky

This was my boyfriend’s friend, Charlie Kooky! Charlie Kooky didn’t like the freeway and my boyfriend would force his parents to take backroads on Charlie’s behalf. He says that Charlie Kooky looked like Alfalfa from The Little Rascals. But I think . . . .

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Dot

Not only was Dot imaginary, she was also invisible, so no picture will accompany this text. So, I’m a strange bird: when I was little (9 or 10?), I realized that a lot of people had imaginary friends and I didn’t. It wasn’t that I was jealous, but I specifically remember thinking, “When I grow up, will I regret not having an imaginary friend? I would probably want that memory, so I’m going to conjure up an imaginary friend!” I could only speak to Dot sitting on the radiator in my bedroom, which looked out into our backyard. I think I would talk to her (or myself).

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Community Presbyterian Pre-School

222 W El Pintado, Danville, CA 94526

Where I got creative with making up my imaginary friends . . . .

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Montair Elementary

300 Quinterra Lane, Danville, CA 94526

Where I grew out of my imaginary friends.

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Skeeter

OK, so I didn’t have my own imaginary friend, but I made one up for my dog. And he always looked something like this. Super cute, little, and energetic. My sister and I would always ask my dog how Skeeter was, what he was doing, etc. etc. We once had a birthday party for my dog and invited Skeeter too. What a fabulous friend Skeeter was.

added by Susie 04/13/2009

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This wine-swilling, tango-touting, twittering fashionista is also a literary nerd, KQED-obsessed, yoga class-hopping, iPhone poking, Oakland-lover. So take that, SF.