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19 Childhood Nightmares Only Women Between 34–39 Will Remember
1. Accidentally breaking a wing tip, nose, or tail off your beloved dinosaur eraser. 2. Being kind of grossed out by the sweet, plasticky smell of your Cupcake Dolls. 3. Begging your parents to buy you one of these cool, light-up swords at the “Disney on Ice” show. 4. Getting these stick-on earrings to actually…
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Accidentally breaking a wing tip, nose, or tail off your beloved dinosaur eraser.
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Being kind of grossed out by the sweet, plasticky smell of your Cupcake Dolls.
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Begging your parents to buy you one of these cool, light-up swords at the “Disney on Ice” show.
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Getting these stick-on earrings to actually STICK ON for more than like 30-seconds.
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Making sure your parents didn’t throw out these cute Welch’s Dinosaur Jelly glasses once the jar was empty.
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Thinking your fiber optic lamp was THE COOLEST, until you realized it made the room too bright at night to sleep.
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Breaking the little plastic clasp of your favorite charm trying to get it on (or off) your charm necklace.
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If you had long hair, getting it caught on the metal screws of these plastic chairs.
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Never being able to get the Caboodle (or its accessories) in the right color combination that you ACTUALLY wanted.
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Having to both lace up AND velcro these exact Reebok high-tops every. Damn. Day.
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Being creeped out by a musical jewelry box that ABSOLUTELY had a spinning ballerina inside.
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Wishing the flavor of your favorite Juice Carton gum would last just a LITTLE big longer.
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Trying to get as many new stickers as possible to make your sticker album the BEST.
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No matter how hard you tried, never being able to collect ALL the Changeables (aka McRobots) that came inside your Happy Meals.
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Lying on one of these plastic webbed lawn chairs in the summer and having it stick to your skin and leave marks all over your body.
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Never, ever, EVER being able to get all the rings onto the hook in this weird water game.
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Thinking you looked like an Olympian while playing with a Get’in Shape, Girl! Ribbon, but actually getting tired about about five minutes in.
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Never being able to line up the lines QUITE RIGHT when using Fashion Plates and having weird gaps in your final masterpiece.
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And finally, sweating SO MUCH underneath your plastic Ben Cooper Halloween costume that you actually stank by the end of the night.
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