"I bought a hat, the first I had owned since childhood, a gray plaid bop cap which I wore with a magical child's belief in the infinities of common things."
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Sorry this isn't an answer but as I began searching, I found a mysterious trail of identical questions... actually, it made me curious if any of them were you...\n\nhttp://lists.project-wombat.org/pipermail/project-wombat/2006-February/000520.html\n\nhttp://forum.quoteland.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=099191541&m=5131010611\n\nnone of them seem to be coming up with an answer... or at best, the answers given are refuted.  It's weird.\n\nThere's also someone talking about it on eBay but every time I'm linked to the chat page, my search can't find the quote.
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Get her an excorcist, my kid was doing the same thing, and i got a priest and he hit the kid with holy water, and the kid screamed, and at the end of the excorcism, my kid started acting normal again.
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Well, I really want a new beanie, there is this Element beanie I really like.  And a new jacket.
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I have just removed my hat
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Do you believe in magic. Well, I hope you do, cuz you've got a friend wearing big red shoes.. or something like that...\n\n\nMcDonald's\nPart of the "Do you believe in magic" campaign; a kid was at home wearing a cast ("Stupid broken leg!") when Ronald stops by to play. I think they do things like fishing in his yard or something weird. The mom gets home and says "What'd you do today?" and the kid looks out the window while Ronald waves from behind a tree in the front yard, and says "Played with MY FRIEND!"\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_TV_campaigns_and_slogans\n1993  Do You Believe in Magic?
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my child..\nI couldnt of "bought" or just "got" a better one from anywhere ..\nThe one I made is perfect :)
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Apparently but one person explained that a magical mist rose from the ground which helped things to grow.  Makes perfect sense now.
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I didn't know what i wanted to be as a child, so now that i'm grown up i'm not disappointed since i had no particular expectaions.. i do as i please, and i'm pleased as i do...whatever i want!
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Somewhere in my late childhood (9-12) I already didn't feel religions made sense to me. Then I gave that feeling a more theoretical background.
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I bought a grandparents brag book and put a sonogram picture inside of it on the first page and wrapped it up with gift wrap.  We went over for dinner and I gave it to them non-chalantly and said "here- I picked up a little something for you"...  they opened it, looked at it and looked a little confused.  After they thought about it for a couple of minutes they finally *got it* and just screamed.  Its a great memory.
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I can wear a pony tail and I have a cute hair cut
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yes i was 12 when i got a credit card and my own bank account
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Most kids brought up with parents who 'believe' will have that same belief drilled into them, either deliberately or they will just pick  up as they go along that this is the thing to do!\nIts only when they are old enough to question the situation for themselves that they can really make up their own minds.\nI made mine up when I was about 10 years old, it didn't really take a lot of brain cells to figure out that the whole deal was a load of 'tosh'!\nBefore I figured it out I was a church goer, in the choir,performed all the required rituals etc etc, what a load of rubbish , I wish I had been taught at school about all the different religions on the planet, I could have made up my mind a lot earlier.\nHow can I be sure that there is no God and you are equally certain that there is????\nThere is no way I (or anyone else) can explain that to you, I could ramble on about 'logic' you could give me quotes from one or two of your 'Holy books' and say meaningless things like " Look around you at the lovely birds and the bees"!   But at the end of it all there is no way I am going to change your mind, and no way you are going to change mine.\nFor a very long time I have been trying to work out a way or a 'happening' that would convince either of us, and I just cant.\nI would be very interested in any ideas?\nIt would be interesting to know what religion you decieded on when you had this 'supernatural' experience, and why you think any religion is required at all? Cant you just believe in God, isnt that enough without needing any religion or 'teachers' or 'leaders'??\nThats the main bit that annoys me all the different groups even within one religion, all going their own sweet merry ways!\nIf any one wants to believe in God, good luck to them, they must feel a need to! I dont feel the need to, and I certainly have no time at all for any religious nutter groups!
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my grandma looked like grandma.
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it always used to be a bit of old striped sheet (or pillow case with holes for the arms to stick thru' depending on the size of the child) with dressing gown cord round the waist and a teatowel on the head with one of those stretchy headbands when I was at school
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I think it is a fedora.
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I totally agree, I wasn't told there were fictitious people or beings. I knew exactly where the gifts, candy and other stuff came from.\nI raise my children the same way, I never want them to think I have lied to them, I want them to know they can trust me.