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DANNY
Kurt Brodsky scores a last touchdown to ice the game and the stands erupt as his teammates rush him in hugs and helmet slaps. As the team jogs back toward their sideline, though, Kurt stays in the back of the end zone. He raises both hands high up in the air, pauses, then lowers his arms as if prepping and ... and ... flings himself backward while his legs power his big body up and over. Kurt Brodsky, in full helmet and pads, does a supremely ugly-beautiful back handspring that barely gets him around to his feet again. Awful landing aside, the handspring is still pretty cool. The stadium explodes all over again as the stunt is lovingly captured by Tina in slow motion up on the Jumbotron. He still needs to keep his elbows locked when he throws the trick, but I’ll make sure to remind him sometime before the championship game.
“He made it!” I whisper.
We made it!” a boy’s voice, no longer mine, corrects me before vanishing forever.
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