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Imaginary friends

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I had an older brother (now deseased) and I had an imaginary friend. Strangely enough my friend was a girl which I guess to be unusual for a little guy. My friend was blonde and was from Argentina.
 
An interesting, older thread about children's imaginary (?) friends, and ponderings on what they might be in reality. :)


Karoliina
 
I had an imaginary friend named "Duren". He literally guarded me until I was almost 4 years old, after that I couldn't see or hear him anymore. Yes I was the firstborn and an only child until age 5 but Duren had disappeared after our move to California between 3 & 4 yrs old. He was 'semi-solid' meaning I could see him but see through him also. Other times I could see his head which had a white turban on it and the rest of him was more cloud-shaped with a silver border.


One day my great-aunt took me shopping on the L-train to the Chicago Loop and I guess I was about 2 1/2 or 3 yrs at the time. I sat down in a seat and Duren sat next to me then Aunt Ruth sat down on Duren and I was outraged and screamed; "Aunt Ruth, you're sitting on Duren--get off of him!" Oh my Aunt was so embarrassed but explained to the other passengers that I had an imaginary friend and everyone laughed as she took the seat in back of me and it appeared I was sitting all alone during the trip. Poor Aunt Ruth!:butbut:


~Zengirl
 
I never had an imaginary friend (that I remember), but one of my best friends growing up did. I had a younger sister, but she was an only child. She had these friends until we were at least 12 or so. She never mentioned them to anyone but me as far as I know, but she fully believed that they were real on some level.


She told me that I could make up some imaginary friends to play with hers, and I did, but they were never real to me. One of them was a boy a bit older than her, and the other was actually a fairy. Even though she called them her imaginary friends, she seemed to believe they were real in some way long past the age that kids normally believe in such things.
 
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