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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Space Man submitted by Jess. |
0:11.0 | David Bowie had just died and I was devastated. |
0:14.8 | I don't usually care about famous people, but he was one who I feel played a part and |
0:18.8 | who I am today. |
0:20.2 | I cried off and on for a week or so after it happened. |
0:23.2 | Anyway, it's evening and I'm getting my girls ready for bed. |
0:27.2 | My youngest daughter was brushing her teeth when she suddenly stopped, looked at me and said, |
0:31.2 | I died in bed but now I'm a spaceman. English accent, spot on for a three-year-old. |
0:36.8 | I tried to ask her more but she just said, I'm not going to be silly and went on brushing her teeth. |
0:42.0 | I have another long story. Back in the early 80s we lived in a tiny two-story house in the suburbs of Chicago on Elm Street, no joke. |
0:51.0 | I remember this house as the house with the giant elm tree in the front where girls would leave |
0:55.9 | notes for my brothers and the kind and elderly couple next door would give us things like |
1:01.4 | bags of apples or a doll here and there. I would get up some |
1:04.8 | evenings and want water and since I was three I would wake my mom up. She would wait for me at the |
1:09.9 | bottom of the stairs because I was three and still afraid of navigating the house in the |
1:13.5 | dark. I would always pause at the top of the stairs because a transparent man in a |
1:18.3 | plaid shirt would be sitting on the banister that overlooked the stairs. |
1:21.8 | Looking what I realize now must have been bored or sad. |
1:26.4 | He sat with his elbows on his knees and his head resting on one hand. |
1:30.9 | My mom would remind me that she was waiting and I would say I have to say |
1:34.4 | hi to the man. I would say hi and wave. He would lift his head and give a sad half |
1:39.7 | hearted wave. Almost as if to say great, another little kid sees me. |
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