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(28,979 posts)No. 6 especially has made me feel enormous guilt for being a 1st grade shark about her obsessive behavior. While my desk partner's crayons did not look quite as figural as these crayons, her crayons had the indelible tooth marks to prove her obsession. I imagine she was tasting the colors maybe. Or seeing the pictures she would draw. Touching her tongue against the rainbow on those rainy days we sat so hard at work in the classroom. I could hear her nibbling the crayons. I saw the bits of wax, the gnawed crayons stripped of their paper even.
To me this was sacrilege. My crayons were perfect--without flaws. I reacted as if at my best friend had died if I dropped one and it broke. As if I had destroyed something magic. And that poor thing next to me with her chewed up awful crayons gnawed into nasty looking bits. And often on Monday, she would bring a new box to replace the old. At some point I convinced myself and her that if she merely meant to mutilate all hers anyway, she should trade me her perfect ones for my broken ones.
I could have spent a lot of years in therapy over this incident, but luckily you helped me reveal the terrible secret. My undying gratitude.
Now, would you like to trade my broken crayons for your whole ones?