Garbage Pail Kids
When I was five years old, I played with used condoms.
I had no idea what they were, of course, and they didn't belong to my parents. No, my neighbourhood friends and I found some outside one sunny day in a back alley garbage can.
Did I reach into the trash to pull out these unspeakably filthy rubber playthings? Absolutely not! I doubt that idea ever would have occurred to me, as I liked watching She-Ra, playing with Cabbage Patch dolls, singing along to Cindy Lauper in my playroom, and petting cats.
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