Acknowledgments

I remember when I first discovered LEGO again. It was in the summer of 1984, I was fresh out of sixth grade, and I was visiting my friend’s house. My friend showed me this Lego spaceship he had made that was 4.5 feet long, resting on a pool table. I thought it was one of the coolest things that I had ever seen; it was quite detailed. At that time, it had been a year or so since I had played with my LEGO bricks. I had a handful of sets that were just kept in a boxes and I thought that I had outgrown them. After visiting my friend’s place, I started building again.

I kept building with LEGO, and I am now 40 years old. Now I have accrued many sets and have filled two large boxes with pieces. I have kids of my own, but if I wasn’t ...

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