Which superpower would you choose? Flying like Superman? Being Invisible? Everything you touch turns to gold?
Before movies and books got obsessed with superpowers, we had wishes. These usually came in threes. When I was a kid, I read lots of books about kids who screwed up two of their wishes and used the third to change everything back to normal. Now, I was a weird kid and I took this problem very seriously. After a lot of thought, I decided my wish would be that everything I ever wished for would come true.
Good one, right?
When I was introduced to superpowers, I wasn’t that impressed. Wonder Woman, Superman, Spiderman, they didn’t do much for me. I still hankered for my three wishes. Then I came across the Invisible Man. Now that was a superpower I could wish for. For much of my teens, I daydreamed about walking around unseen. Who wouldn’t want to be able to go anywhere and do anything without any chance of getting caught? Remember how many problems Harry Potter solved with his invisibility cloak?
But I discovered there was something even better.
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