The birthday girl had some plans for the occasion. Her guests would each be given a forensics kit with fingerprinting powder and a little notebook for writing down clues.
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I would arrive first, making a show of sliding into my parking spot at the end of the long driveway and announcing upon arrival that I was being chased.
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“Are you sure this won’t be too much for your friends?” I asked. She assured me they would be briefed, they knew it was a Nancy Drew mystery party, and that my only job was to be convincing.
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If you know me, you know I take my assignments seriously, especially when my boss is a little girl.
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The tiny girls were adorable in their sparkly party attire. They were mesmerized by the story. Their eyes were wide. They gripped their little forensics kits.
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The villains had been instructed by the birthday girl to make their trip down the driveway agonizingly suspenseful. The girls watched from the window as the car approached.
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The plan was for us to all stay hidden, for the men to come in and not find us, but to leave fingerprints all over the kitchen and glasses that the girls could investigate.
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But in their minds, I was Nancy Drew, and these two giant men who now emerged from the car were sinister villains. Instead of remaining hidden, the girls descended on them in a screaming pack.
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The men were dazed as the tiny girls leapt on their backs as a group. The men didn’t know what hit them and couldn’t see what was happening because they had tiny thumbs pressing down on their eyelids.
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I worked with the girl’s parents to pull the children off the men, who definitely left their fingerprints on a few pint and shot glasses that afternoon. Unfortunately there was no powder left for testing, since the kits had all been destroyed in the pandemonium.
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