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Story Time Cont...
had a secure handhold. Those misguided,
Dave and Slim were younger daredevil exploits Nathan Flynn
Local Scout
than me. I informed them that usually lasted until Philanthropist
as the eldest I would be the sunset. The warm
first to test our swing. With my summers never Due to overwhelming
hands tightly clenched above seemed long enough. community interest, we at
the knots, I picked up speed as I School resumed and the South Valley Review just
ran in a 180-degree arc around fall soon followed. had to put a name to the
face!
the eucalyptus and launched Chilly weather kept
myself from the bluff. Grinning us inside as the days
and yelling, I hung on for dear shortened. The rope,
life. Almost instantly, as my body almost forgotten, stayed bunched According to neighborhood
swung outward in the circling arc, up, tied high in the eucalyptus. gossip, the injuries to the rope-
my momentum thrust my legs high Winter took its toll on the rope’s swinger were minor. We were
over the highway. The view was integrity. The following spring the sobered by the story and by the
majestic. Filled with glee, I rapidly rope, our rope, was nowhere to be fact that our exciting summer
sailed back to my starting point. seen. activity was really dangerous.
We took turns. Laughing, A story circulated that someone Nearly 60 years have passed.
we gave scant thought to the unknown to our group had found The eucalyptus still stands on the
perspective of the motorists the rope and like us, swung out bluff. Today Dave and I, older and
below, as our shoe bottoms came over the highway. The weathered perhaps a little wiser, smile at
into view above the windshields rope had given up and abruptly the memory of swinging out over
of passing cars. Only in my separated from the tree. Atlantic Avenue, glad that we did it
imagination can I before we learned to know better.
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