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Father's Old Wrestling Shoes |
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After ten years living in one place, my parents finally decided to move from suburb to the city. And my mother asked me to review the attic and to throw out the useless stuff. I didn’t want to do this. To rummage in old stuff and breathe a dust not for me, but I had to. First I did it without any interest. I found some child's play from my childhood, my old clothes, and some magazines. I didn’t want to bring this rush to my new life in the city. I wanted to throw it out. But then suddenly my sight stopped on very, very old box, it was shabby and there was a inscription… It was interesting to me what there was and who’s this box was. So, opened the box and saw very old things. They looked as if they were sent from the last century. But the most interesting thing I saw there were trainers – wrestling shoes. I didn’t want to guess whose that stuff and made a beeline for father that to ask him about it. It was found out that they were my father’s shoes. To my surprise, when he was at my age he was keen on wrestling. I had no idea that he went in for sport. He even was in school team of wrestling. He was very successful and wanted to continue it on professional level. He had a lot of prizes and diplomas. He was the best. Once his team took part in competition where was a school which was their old rivals. In that team was a boy Billy Johns. He accounted himself best of the best, self – confident and impudent. But on fact he was worth nothing. And as ill luck would have it, my father had a fight with him. All father’s team was sure that he can manage with him, that we would win the battle, because he took the lead. But the fight was unfair. Billy Johns used foul blows and referee didn’t notice it. And as the result my father, one of the best links in a chain of the school team, failed the decisive fight and his rivals won that competition. My father felt embarrassed and blame, because everybody depended upon him and he decided to give up sport, to give up wrestling. That day he was dressed in these shoes, which I have found. He forgot about them and asked me to throw it out, that never remember that doleful moment in his life. |
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