Mike
“Sitting on a kitchen chair, Riny leaned over the lip of the chest and peered inside. At her history.
The scrapbook of news clippings her mother had kept during her short career. The faded swim suit from her one appearance in the Netherlands National Team. And the medal: real gold, untarnished after more than fifty years.
European Championships, 19381OOm FreestyleR. Blankevoort Just a year before the War. And the end of it all.
She held the medal in her hand, and remembered the feeling. The chee...rs of the huge crowd as she bent forward on the winners’ podium and the official slid the ribbon over her head. How she had waved to the crowd. To her mother and her sister high in the stands. Her father had been unable to get leave from the army during that time of tension.
She remembered the lights, bright on the water … Suddenly, she closed her eyes. The memory was gone, replaced by another.
A different night and different lights. And fire, bright on a different kind of water … When Michael came home, she was waiting for him.MoreLess
The scrapbook of news clippings her mother had kept during her short career. The faded swim suit from her one appearance in the Netherlands National Team. And the medal: real gold, untarnished after more than fifty years.
European Championships, 19381OOm FreestyleR. Blankevoort Just a year before the War. And the end of it all.
She held the medal in her hand, and remembered the feeling. The chee...rs of the huge crowd as she bent forward on the winners’ podium and the official slid the ribbon over her head. How she had waved to the crowd. To her mother and her sister high in the stands. Her father had been unable to get leave from the army during that time of tension.
She remembered the lights, bright on the water … Suddenly, she closed her eyes. The memory was gone, replaced by another.
A different night and different lights. And fire, bright on a different kind of water … When Michael came home, she was waiting for him.MoreLess
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