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Anticipation

My fondest childhood memories include adventures my sister and I spent with my cousins. We were very close in age to our two cousins. We spent many play dates together and were basically like sisters. The four of us girls were inseparable. Our time spent together was filled with imaginative games of lost kingdoms and princess warriors, exploring the woods and making mud pies, playing barbies and telling secrets, and always, always laughing until our bellies hurt. The hours of play seemed to flash by in a blink. We would cry when either of us had to leave, begging our parents for “Just one more hour.” One day, we thought we could trick our parents and change all of the clocks back two hours. My eldest cousin and I conspired together, and our plan was going so well until we met the challenge of the oven clock. How do we do this one!? We pressed a few buttons, beep, beep. Shhhhhh! Maybe we can unplug it? As we struggled with the oven, our mother's heard the beeping sound