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How I first started playing pokemon:
For my birthday my Father got me the pokemon trading card game for gameboy colour. I popped it in and couldn't stop playing. When I brang it to school the next day my friend told me about pokemon Y/B/R and I played his game for a bit and I loved it! I got...