Posted by Racer on June 25, 2005, at 1:41:45
In reply to Mark Lester and other little girl crushes, posted by TamaraJ on June 20, 2005, at 17:43:27
I nearly wrote to him a year or so ago, and still might. He's an osteopath now, I discovered. Here's why I'd write:
In 1969, I was hit by a car. Major surgery, major injuries, skull fracture, broken pelvis, etc. Weeks in traction, months in cast, months working with a physical terrorist, the whole nine yards. At the end of which -- I could, pretty much, walk.
Fast forward, to about 1970, when Mark Lester appeared in a movie based on a book called "The White Pony", about an autistic boy and a wild pony -- who dies, as I recall, of strangles, but maybe I'm remembering that part wrong, that might have been Steinbeck. Anyway, I'd ridden horses a bit, at summer camp, but something about that movie flipped a switch in my mind, and I knew I had to ride. It opened a door for me, much to my mother's dismay, and the horses gave me the ability to move without the hell of being the little lame girl, the little cripple.
35 years later, I'm still grateful for that movie for changing my life.
So, I may someday write to that osteopath to tell him that he cured a little crippled girl long before he ever took his first class.
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