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[enchanted-book]

i don't know how common it is, but i LOVED playing with marbles when i was little. i had a little wooden 3-tier marble ramp where you put a marble up at the top, and it rolls back and forth all the way to the bottom. you could also race tiny wooden cars on it!

one christmas, i got one of those special 'marble run' sets, with fancy wooden blocks with special carved out edges and holes that all fit together just right, and little xylophone pieces that played sounds when marbles hit them.

i spent so much time just watching marbles roll around, and also taking aside my favorite marbles so that i could admire them while watching other marbles roll around at the same time. i would stare at the box and wistfully daydream having the full set of all different marble contraptions...