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Back To Where It Began....

For my true final post to sneakers n wine, I felt it best to end in the place it began….. A physical therapist whom once worked with me on my hip and ankle, said to me once, “ I won’t tell you to stop running because I know runners are all running away or towards something. ”  I smiled knowing why I ran all these years.  I wasn’t running towards or away from anything. I ran because I had something to prove…. A very long time ago, when I was a little girl I had been running in an after school running program at my elementary school.  I was in second grade. One day running by the top part of the  field at my school, I saw a boy from my neighborhood. He was older and went to a different school so I didn’t see him often outside of our neighborhood. I waved, happy to see him  and he yelled out across the field, heckling me in front of everyone, that I was too short to run and my chicken legs were too skinny to ever run fast enough.   I kept running ...