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All tagged hide-and-seek

Dec 28
Dec 28 Sno-Park

I tell him to chase me and ask for a ten-second running start, a real one with “hippopotamus” between the numbers.

Sep 21
Sep 21 Ceremony

I ran and hid in the lush round evergreen on the corner before the moon came and the mothers called us in.