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Hey, it's Marielle.
When Whitney Bay was growing up in Illinois and her mom would tell her,
go outside and play, she knew what that meant.
Play for us was going outside, climbing trees.
It was making mud pies.
It was, um, we used to, like, reenact a lot of, like, current events.
Like the Olympics, the 1996 Olympics, I believe.
The 1996 Olympics were an iconic moment for young girls.
The dream team for us was made up of gymnasts.
Dominique Mochiano, Carrie Strug.
We little ones were obsessed.
We'd set up like this little bench and I'd run and I'd like jump over it like it's a vault.
And it's literally just like a sitting bench.
So just like use our imagination.