Growing up as a child I had two sisters.
They were older then me and I was the baby.
We had a game we played that we made up to entertain ourselves.
To tell the truth I don't know where paper people came from but I know that is what we called the game my sisters and I played.
Maybe one of my parents told it to one or both of my sisters but since I can't say I surmised it was our own creation.
And the more I think about the nature of that game I am more than ninety five per cent sure we made it up.
There was nothing complicated about the game paper people.
We all, each one of us, my two sisters and myself, chose some people out of the catalogs or magazines we had laying around the house and cut them out.
We would make houses for our characters out of cardboard boxes.
After the stage was set, from then on it was like the television soap operas.
We just acted out our own characters part as we moved them around from place to place.
I remember it was so much fun; we would cut out men and women I think we even cut out children too.
It went something like this, I would take a man, Bob could have been the name I had given him, and walked him over to Barbara's house.
Or what ever name my sister named her.
And would say, Hi Barbara what are you doing today? Then my sister would say, hi Bob I am washing the clothes today, what are you up? Then I would say, nothing much Barbara, just going shopping today.
We were speaking for our paper people as if they were talking.