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“Okay, you two, what in the world is going on?” Mom asked one second after I hung up the telephone.
Crystal and I looked at each other, but I knew it was my call. The problem was deciding just how much we could or should share with my parents. I sat down with the three of them. “Mom, do you remember way back when I was almost five that I talked one day about having a playmate in my room? You came in to get me to come to lunch, and I asked if he was staying for lunch. When we looked around my room neither of us could find him. After lunch, he returned to play with me, and you showed up again a while later to see if I was taking a nap that afternoon. I think I said I wanted to play with my new friend. We looked around the room and once again he was gone. You picked me up and plunked me
