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When I was friends with Adam we did a lot of projects and activities
with his family which was not the way we did things at my house.
Adam's dad and mom seemed like they were always around and
facilitating snacking and playtime. One of the best days of my young
life is one Adam's dad broke out the video camera that had a stop
motion feature. We set up a little people's car park toy as the set
and then worked out frame by frame a riveting and unwritten tale of
a teenage mutant ninja turtle saving many other toys from the
insatiable hunger of a blob of play-doh. Adam, his sisters and I
worked for hours and hours while his dad patiently took one picture
at a time. Finally, we had a few minute long video short on plot and
character but long on love and hands and heads left in the frame. After we made that movie we had all kinds of plans to make a whole
feature length movie with a real plot and characters but we never
made another.
