17-year-old Candice was watching television downstairs in her living room. A strange man was on the screen and was saying something that she did not understand. She did not remember when he had first appeared on her screen, but certainly this was not the program she had been watching. Suddenly she felt very sleepy, but instead of changing the channel or turning off the TV and going up to sleep in her bed, she left the TV on and fell asleep with the strange man still talking.

When she woke up she knew immediately that something was wrong. She quickly discovered that she had become a toddler, and, after recovering from the initial shock, remembered the man on the TV. He was gone, however, and now in his place was being aired some stupid documentary. Candice knew she was trapped until that man came back on the air to set right what he had done. She screamed and cried and threw tantrum after tantrum at the unfairness of her fate, but it did nothing to change her situation except to earn her a few spankings by her parents, who did not remember her being any age other than what she was now.

When she got older, she tried to find information from the TV station she had been watching about the strange program she had seen, but no one knew what she was talking about. To her despair the man did not come back to her television until an agonizingly long fifteen years later, when she was again seventeen. And Candice was not at all pleased with the results, to put it mildly. If people thought it a little strange before to see two parents in their early forties with their 2-year-old daughter, it was certainly something to ponder this time when the 2-year-old belonged to the two fifty-somethings who looked more like her grandparents!

As for Candice, her spirit was broken. This time she stayed in diapers until she was nearly four - almost a year and a half longer than she had originally. Nothing in life seemed to have any meaning for her now. A few days before her 3rd 17th birthday she killed herself. She died a pathetic shadow of her original life.



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