Day 2489: A quick Dad story.

4 kids: Old photos, collage & digital

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A quick Dad story.

I lived with my Dad when I returned to the US in 1956.

I had always been in a Catholic girls schools and was shy.

Enrolled in John Marshall High School and didn't know a soul. 

I had a thick Australian accent, so when I spoke people looked. 

Mrs. Hovey, my algebra teacher, called on me in class.

I stood, we stood when called on in Australia.

When I spoke, every hear turned and I was beet red.

As I remember, all traces of the accent were gone in a week.

Amazing what you can do when motivated.

A year later I had been given a assignment to speak at an assembly, in front of the whole school. My Dad saw that I was worried and asked why. When I explained, he said I was already suffering and the time wasn't here yet. He said, a take off on Shakespeare's quote, "A coward dies a thousand times ...", and his version, a brave man dies just once. 
Somehow that made sense? And, I survived. 
Now, looking at it from this end, I think so often what we dread the most never happens, or is mild in comparison to the reality?

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