Thank you for the memory of you:
I'm throwing myself around the family room, accompanied by Queen’s, A Night at the Opera. I'm attempting cartwheels. I want so badly to be able to do them. I’ve seen the older girls at school spinning like fireworks across the playground and it looks like so much fun. I want to spin too.
My arms are okay, I can get that bit right. With every attempt I choose two blue paisley swirls on the carpet and place one hand in each, then, as Freddie Mercury sings Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon I kick my legs into the air and hope that a cartwheel happens...It doesn't, but I try again. I keep trying until I make myself dizzy, and I don’t stop until one day Freddie is singing Bohemian Rhapsody and I can do them perfectly.
jojobee
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