BACKSTORY: So much of our life has been, on some level, imaginary. We pretend to travel to other countries, pretend to meet famous people, pretend to be animals, monsters, magical, cursed, and pretend to be storybook characters. We pretend a talking skeleton lives in the basement, a Viking named Blunder manages to involve us in each of his quests, and a witch named Ugly Bugly stalks me frequently. Pretending is part of our family legacy. I endorse this message.