Response to the Daily Post Prompt: Pretend

 by rugby843, posted 9-25-2017

When I was a small girl, my favorite rainy day activity was going into our huge attic. There was an old Victrola and big black heavy records to play. There were trunks full of old clothing from previous decades. My sisters and I had great imaginations and would dress up, play music, and pretend we were characters from a book. Of course we loved playing “Little Women”, one of our favorite books. My sister always played Jo, her namesake. We would be Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Boris Karloff, or a film noir detective resembling Humphrey Bogart. There was a knot hole in the flooring in which we viciously lowered a fake spider to scare our grandmother below. Echoes of “you little whippersnappers!” I still hear today. Every child should have an attic.

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