I found something yesterday and it was like a childhood memory presented itself to me in a red bow. It brought me back to 1992. I was sixteen going on seventeen. I was really into figure skating. The Cutting Edge had come out and it was the Winter Olympics in Albertville. While everyone else was watching the drama unfold between Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, I was watching the Dance Pairs, back when they could still throw each other and slide on the ice and do all kinds of stunts that are considered illegal now. So, my Dad and I watched with tears as Klimova and Ponomarenko took the gold, Dushesnay and Dushesnay took the silver and Usova and Zhulin took the bronze. They were all brilliant. We recorded it on our VCR and I watched those performances over and over for the next year. We saw them on tour twice at Arco Arena. And I hadn't seen them since, until I found them yesterday on YouTube. It was a strangly emotional discovery, maybe because my father and I don't speak any more, or maybe because it reminded me of that quiet, lonely little girl so long ago. Surely this won't matter to anyone else but me, but now I have them forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5nCz-Pl2Rs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cASdFgfzHrc
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Great movie. My sister and I watched it over and over.
childhood is all about picking idols. i have so many-- so fun to reminisce about them and remember the dreams from long ago. . .
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