#800 All This History At Once- Bryn Chancellor
A teacher spends her weekends selling her crafts with her husband. This weekend is the big annual crafts festival in the Tennessee statehouse. She is dressed in a corny but event-appropriate get-up that is giving her a bit of trouble as she hauls her gear up the large staircase.
“But you’re here this weekend, after all, for an arts and crafts festival, where red cowboy boots and short skirts are de rigueur, and with any luck, no children will puke or pee on you or smear you with paste or peanut butter or grape-scented markers.”
As she looks on the historic statues in the plaza she thinks back on her own history and imagines seeing her ex-husband. Everything together causes her to tumble down the staircase. She flails and tumbles in a painful and embarrassing display. Except she is not embarrassed and nobody is laughing. Her worst fears are put to rest and she can move on.
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