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I'm really enjoying this story! I've always liked hopscotch, even though I was never at all good at it. (Trivia fact about me: my enjoyment of a game or activity is only very tangentially related to my skill at it: as long as I can understand the game and don't have to do too much counting--a skill that frustrates me immensely--I can be terrible at a game and really enjoy it, or technically good at it but find it boring, frustrating, or otherwise unenjoyable...or, of course, vice versa.) Has Betty (or Phil) ever played Snail (what the Wikipedia page for Hopscotch calls Escargot)? I was always better at that than at "regular" hopscotch, because my feet have always been tiny, making it easier for me to safely navigate the inner squares (and thus making it more likely that I would end up with at least as many "safe" squares as my opponent). This fic is bringing back some great memories for me of playing "street games" and "playground games" with my friends.