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The Greatest Love of All – 1985

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My dance / song recital is creeping up on me.  I am finalizing all of the music and memorizing lyrics and dance moves.  My leotard arrives tomorrow and I am praying that it will fit.  The most challenging measurement to obtain is the “girth”.

When thinking of a song for my big recital, for some reason Whitney Houston kept coming to mind.  Of course there is the 1992 mega hit, “I Will Always Love You” – 1992 but there is also, “The Greatest Love of All”.  I remember singing (well, shyly mouthing the words) this song in elementary school for one of those ridiculous student recitals.  It was for my 6th grade graduation.  It was the kind of performance where you stand on risers under extremely hot lights.  Every year someone was guaranteed to faint causing a hilarious domino effect of small children.  I recently learned that this often happens because people lock their knees for an extended period of time. Read the rest of this entry »

Pizza

It is night time and I’m at my parent’s house.
I ask my mom to take me to get pizza.
We get into our white van and she gets behind the wheel.
I notice that she is driving erratically.
She is driving on the sidewalk and over people’s lawns.
Small children are illuminated by her headlights.
They are frozen with terror as my mother speeds straights towards them. Read the rest of this entry »