My favorite trick of yours, traffic control! About 2 1/2, or whenever you understood that green means go, you took it to mean that it was your responsibility, your absolute POWER, to change red lights to green. Yes, your first taste of power, and you were drunk with it. This was before the days of seatbelts and car seats, so you would be standing up in the back seat of the car (yes, I know), and when we would stop for a red light, you would jump into action. I do mean "Jump!" Up and down and up and down and up and down...as hard and as fast as you could. Till magically, that old light would turn to green! Every single time. You were indefatigable in meeting the challenge of red lights and making them change. You'd just keep jumping for however long it took, till you could pull it off.
You may have been yelling, "Green, green, green" and thinking it was the jumping and the incantation that cast a spell and made it all materialize, but I had a strong hunch it was all those amazing sparkles from your saucer brown eyes that made all that magic.
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