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March 2, 2003
Big Builder
Happy birthday to Angela's second cousin Kevin who celebrated his 6th birthday today. We took a trip down to visit them, and to deliver birthday presents. They recently got a new computer, so we bought Kevin a construction computer game. He took one look at the box, and cast it aside, hinting that he was too old for Fisher-Price games.
"Fine," I said. "I'll play it then."
Five minutes after I started swinging a virtual wrecking ball at a virtual barn, all the kids had crowded around me, begging for a turn. Finally Kevin put a stop to the pleas by announcing to everyone that he was the birthday boy and it was his turn to play. He almost missed his cake, he was so engrossed with tearing down farmhouses and factories.
And Angela thought he would be too old for it.