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Skiing
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Phil walked along beside the belt, reaching the top well before me. After he pointed to where I was supposed to go, I pushed myself off the belt and fell flat on my face. I could hear the little kids behind me giggling as our instructor helped me upright.
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― Elephant on my Chest
― Elephant on my Chest
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My right foot hits the ground first, but my left one's gone AWOL, and I'm cartwheeling, my body mapped by local explosions of pain -- ankle, knee, elbow -- shit, my left ski's gone, whipped off, vamoosed -- ground-woods-sky, ground-woods-sky ground-woods-sky, a faceful of gravelly snow; dice in a tumbler; apples in a tumble dryer, a grunt, a groan, a plea, a shiiiiiiiiit ...
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Gravity, velocity, and the ground; stopping is going to cost a fortune and the only acceptable currency is pain.
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― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
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