There's nothing quite like opening up that yellow and green Crayola lid to get lost in the familiar smell of a new box of crayons.
I don't do it as much as when I was a little boy, but it does bring back memories. My first creative masterpieces kept me entertained, whether drawing stick figures of my mama, usually with both arms on one side of her body standing in a bucket of water because I couldn't draw feet, or coloring with my Aunt Laverne. I passed the time coloring almost everywhere -- o
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