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Did You Experience This or That in Your Childhood?

Lie down on the couch and tell me about your childhood

4 min readSep 12, 2023

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crudely-drawn posters of Garfield the cat and the Pink Panther
I had a Pink Panther doll as well as several Garfields. Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash

Karen Schwartz tagged me in her prompt about childhood. If you’d like to join in, you can find the original questions here:

Did You Experience This or That in Your Childhood?

  1. Would you rather be born in your decade or ten years later?
    I had a bit of a rough time growing up, trying to hide my true feelings, knowing that no one around me would understand or accept them. Even 10 years later, I think high school would’ve been largely the same but college would be a different story. I could’ve had so much more fun there.
  2. Would you prefer still to have your favorite childhood toy or childhood best friend?
    I have both, sort of. I still see my childhood best friend occasionally, but we have very different lives from one another. I still speak to her and we get along wonderfully. I can’t say that I had one specific favorite toy growing up but I often played with Star Wars action figures. I also loved…

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Brandon Ellrich
Brandon Ellrich

Written by Brandon Ellrich⁠

I write satire, LGBTQ, and cat stories. I'm an author/freelance writer. I have a B.S. in psychology and my goal in writing is to evoke emotion from the reader.