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die. He just had a bullet, says Judy.
"She took it as far as her imagination
could and she let it go. She didn't
know more about it. I suspect she
heard something on the news."
Much of Chuckie's life came from
Aimee listening to stories about what
her cousins and relatives were doing,
or what she could grasp from the
evening news that her mother watched
while she cooked supper. Like an adult
sitting over coffee, Aimee would give
five-minute recounts of Chuckie's
adventures. It was her way of having
something to tell, her mother says.
No one, including Aimee, knows
where she got the name for him.
"You tend to see it in your highly
creative, highly intelligent and verbal
child," explains Jean Fritz, a licensed
clinical social worker at St. Joseph's
Medical Center in Joliet, Ill. And
Judy's mother says Aimee was just
that: verbal, intelligent and imagina-
tive. Today, she's a 27-year-old design-
er in California.

As far as her
imagination
could go.

Both Fritz and Musikantow says
such imaginative play on the part of
children passes on its own and is only
of concern if it extends into adoles-
cence.
"It can be the need for a friend. It
can be the need to check out emo-
tions, making sure feelings are accept-
able," says Musikantow. "In some chil-
dren, they will take the parts of them-
selves they have trouble with and give
them to the imaginary friend. A lot of
kids use it that way. And some will use
the imaginary friend to take on
responsibility for them."
Fritz, who works with sexually
abused children, says some abused
children have imaginary friends simply
because they need a friend. "That
friend fills an unmet need and even
with abused children, it's not
unhealthy."
Parents who are concerned should
make sure other areas of the child's life
are OK, suggests Musikantow. Be sure
the child is able to make social rela-
tionships, that the parents listen to the
child's feelings, and that there are
appropriate limits and boundaries for
the child. If parents tell a child that he
shouldn't feel a certain way, the child