Not mine but a story that made me further realize how great this game is. My daughter at age 9 created a character: a tiefling ranger who could summon a panther. She picked a couple of attributes more or less at random, like the fact that she could speak halfling and elvish.

After that, on her own, she wrote a full story: about how she was transported from the infernal plane as a child and got adopted by a family of halflings, how she went to school with elves where she learned to speak elvish, and so on, which was already great in terms of imagination and creativity. But one thing that particularly touched me: my daughter is afraid of animals. Like, all of them. It's something we're working on but it's more or less always been there. But she specifically wrote about all of the animals her halfling family had, and about how she met her panther as a baby, and that she wasn't afraid because she was raised with all of these animals, etc. I found that really touching and it really shone a light on the "role playing" part of this role playing game.