My mother never let me have Lego's. Aparently, they looked as if they could cause bare feet (her's) some harm.
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do recall many an hour whiled away with my Lincoln Logs and my Tinker Toy set. Ohhh...and my Erector Set. Can't forget that. Wait...how come she let me have sharp pieces of metal with hundreds of tiny nuts and bolts...yet Lego's were verboten?