I’m at my parents’ house right now. I walked up to my mom in the kitchen and said, “Oh, and look at what the hula hoop did to me last week!” and pulled down the waistline of my shorts. She looked over her shoulder from the sink. The bruise is now much better and looks faded, so I had to explain that all the yellow and brown parts she sees now were actually black and huge a few days ago, and that it had hurt really bad. There was a bit of silence, and then she said, “That just happens because you’re not used to it yet. My waist was sore when I first started, too. If you do it more it won’t hurt anymore.”

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