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While I was watching Cars 2, an elusive nostalgia tugged at my mind. No, I wasn t remembering Pixar s original Cars from 2006. This was something more deeply buried, and finally, in the middle of one of the movie s sensational grand prix races, it came to me: I was sitting on the floor of my bedroom many years ago, with some toy cars lined up in front of me, while I used my hands to race them around on the floor and in the air, meanwhile making that noise kids make by squooshing spit in their mouths.
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In this memory, I was completely engrossed with my cars. They were as real as people, and I played favorites and identified one car as my surrogate. Maybe my hands were swooping around with toys, but my imagination was somewhere else, and I performed the dialogue for the cars: Oh, yeah? Take that! We ll see! Eeeeyowww!