I Can’t See My Family Right Now, So I Rebuilt Them As Sims

'At one point, my Sim dad hugged my Sim sister. I felt a sharp, brief pain in my chest, wondering when I’d be able to hug my real dad again.'

Photo: Courtesy of Rachel Handler I didn’t have a lot of friends as a kid, for reasons that will become clear in the next sentence. I was, to put it gently, an indoor kid, the kind of child who was convinced I was dying when my heart sped up during soccer practice. I mostly saw my clumsy, dumb human body as a mere vessel for my frenzied imagination, which was my favorite place to hang out.

Eventually, I became scientifically interested in tequila and grew out of The Sims. But as I grew away from my Sims, The Sims only grew stronger, becoming the most successful PC-gaming franchise ever, with expansion packs, sequels, and hundreds of millions of copies sold to control-freak children and adults alike. So The Sims were still there, patiently waiting for me, when it came time to quarantine.

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