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Role Playing

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When I flashed back to my childhood about play, I came up with the image of a girl standing on a short hanging bridge which connected the two play houses. She started the game of role playing in my life. We picked the best meaning Chinese characters we had ever known to make up names for the characters, most of times princesses. The ages of the roles, for the most time, were adults' ages.

Now I am still playing this game though, with another group of people, who are around my age. The rule is that each of us plays a role, then we fabricate the name and background of each, and we make stories of characters by two or three characters posting dialogues and acts in a post on message board. However, the ages we are using right now, are mostly the teens'.