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Caesars at the epicenter, since the whole place is saturated with memories of places and people from your childhood.
The sections you always ran to (when it wasn’t for pizza at Little Caesars) were the movie and DS game sections. They might have been next to each other, but either way you always found something you liked. Most of the time, your dad told you to pick something from the five dollar bins, so you rifled through the bin, reaching your hand past the sleek, plastic packaging to see what hid on the bottom. Most of the time, a lot of old My Little Pony and Scooby-Doo movies hid down there. And they were always what you chose when it came to a movie. You read and looked at every bit of the packaging on the way home. These five-dollar-movies still sit on the movie shelf in your living room, a silent reminder of when you used to watch them over and over again in the dark blue recliner that sat in front of the TV, relishing every moment of the plot. In an episode of Scooby-Doo, you remember the part where Scooby hid behind a curtain and there was a brief scene of his eyes looking around in total darkness. It scared you as a child and gave you an adrenaline rush, but now that you’re older you don’t understand why that scared you of all things. You cannot remember when you stopped watching them, either. The change must have been gradual.
You also bought Zhu Zhu Pets 2: a DS game that you played for hours at home and on the long bus rides to elementary school. The game was basically a set of mazes that the player must solve along with the Zhu Zhu pet of their choosing. You remember there was one puzzle you always got stuck on–where was the end? Your Zhu Zhu pet zoomed along the maze in circles until you gave up yet again and shut the cover of your