You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast. I'm your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our sixth story for the month of December 2020 issue 171.

I hope you are doing extraordinarily well and that you've survived the holidays thus far.

And as we move towards January 2021,

hopefully things will be looking brighter.

I want to thank you again for spending this time with me

as I read you all these stories throughout the year.

And I want to thank you in particular if you have supported this magazine,

either via word of mouth or via Clarks World Citizens.com.

If you can go there, you can see how you can be a part of this magazine. via Clarks World Citizens.com.

If you can go there, you can see how you can be a part of this magazine each and every month.

So our sixth story is titled Forward Momentum and a parallel toss. and is by Anna Maria Curtis.

Anna Marie Curtis is from the part of Illinois that is very much not Chicago.

She's the winner of the 2019 Dell Magazine's Award and enjoys starting fights about 19th century

British literature and getting distracted by dogs. You can find her on Twitter at at

Anna M Curtis. Also website is Anna Maria Curtis.com.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back.

Relax.

And let me tell you a story.

On the marching band field,

everything echoes of Alex. Lacey's students spread across the sideline and cue their robots, and Lacey sees herself as a teenager and a giant sweatshirt.

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