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      TLDR:

      * David Corenswet’s maternal grandfather, [Edward Packard](https://edwardpackard.com/), came up with the idea for — and wrote several of — the [*Choose Your Own Adventure*](https://www.cyoa.com/) books, which allow readers to make decisions about what happens by jumping to a different part of the story.
      * Corenswet tells PEOPLE his grandfather, 94, developed the concept after “telling bedtime stories to my mom and my aunt and my uncle. As he described it, he ran out of ideas, and so he just started asking them to come up with the next idea.”
      * Indeed, in a 1981 [*New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/25/books/choose-your-own-adventure-and-make-your-own-ending.html) article, Packard, a former lawyer who commuted to New York City from Connecticut, recalled the specific night in 1969 that spurred the idea. “I asked my girls what Pete, my mythical hero, should do next in the story,“ he said, adding that his kids each chose something different. “On the train the next day, I thought, ‚What would happen if you wrote both endings?'“

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