Today, this is what I will remember.
Picking you up at school, lip split, braces skewed.
Despite it all, you are chatting up the nurses in the clinic, regaling them with the same tale you’ll re-tell on the way to your long-suffering orthodontist.
Basketball hard to the face in PE class. Blood, tears, a nurse’s office slip prepared.
But you wouldn’t go. Not until you shot your free throws. (more…)
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