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I didn't play with toys as a kid. Instead I had an audience at my disposal, waiting for me to perform on a daily base. My father was a doctor and the people waiting in our living room on our couches were patients who came for my fathers practice. Sometimes the patients were just waiting for their turn, other times they were waiting with needles in their arms or legs to do their work (beside a regular doctor my father was also an acupuncturist). In any case, I made extensive use of the patient's waiting time. 

As a girl I liked to perform. I often wore a peculiar combination of clothes and would walk with it through the house. Our living room (which was the patient's waiting room during the day) had a staircase. I would come down the staircase and parade towards the kitchen. After a while I would pop out of the kitchen and walk back the other direction, change in another creation and walk again direction the kitchen. I would do this a couple of times without any reason. At other times I would use an instrument of my fathers practice to perform with. I would pass by and measure the patient's knees with a stethoscope while writing down the findings in a little booklet.

Naomi Bueno de Mesquita