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Id sit in front of my parents blocky, hot-to-the-touch Dell monitor, gleefully losing myself inside the Simulation.

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The game really only became interesting when the Sims were despondent.

Eventually, I became scientifically interested in tequila and grew out ofThe Sims.

SoThe Simswere still there, patiently waiting for me, when it came time to quarantine.

And my other sister got her love of space.

I even made myself, except hotter.

I gave up on finding a duplicate of our old Oriental rug.

I watched them approach each other, begin to joke and laugh.

At one point, my Sim dad hugged my Sim sister.