@RickiTarr my parents basically had to bribe me to start talking. I was capable, I simply had little interest. It didn't take long to realize that I would talk if given something I liked. As giving me a computer was out of the question, they settled on butter cookies. Cookie became one of my fav words and it appears to have sounded similar to how cookie monster says it. That I have rarely seen a butter cookie since probably tells you how many were eaten...
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