If You Act Like You Own It - You Own It

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This husband and I…

Thought we should do something besides eat…rest…and pet Old Man Wrigley…so decided to put museumgoer…on our dance card…have a museum just up the street…toodled up that way…parked in the lot…not sure where the entrance was…so went in the back…

Saw the most delightful exhibit…of Mo Willems’ drawings from each of his 25 Elephant and Piggie books…oohed and ahhhed at his clever quotes…his perspectives on writing…and the process taken to create a children’s book…

Our voices echoing in the void…as it was just us and Piggie…and her friends…who were only as noisy as the speech bubble over their heads…kept walking and surprise of surprises…finally found the front desk…us explaining we came in the wrong door…the volunteer explaining that the museum…is actually a mansion…of which we could tour…

And museumgoer 1 and museumgoer 2…did just that…eyes feasting on the glory of this 1908 mansion…gifted to the city…to be used to display art…this husband and I…the only patrons in the whole place…had the mansion to ourselves…this magnificent glorious amazing mansion…and you know what they say…

If you act like you own it…you own it…well in our heads at least…for just a brief tiny bit…until we reached the volunteer’s desk…and the door…to the exit…

Even back in the real world…it was a splendiferous day…
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And museumgoer 2…agrees…