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suddenly he was a child..again. they called him Bob.....diapers on ...brown skin with beautiful curly hair....legs stiff and slightly bowed...walking in the newly mown grass in the backyard of their house under the watchful eyes of mother...more a waddle than a walk...he took a couple of steps west ...then pivoted to the north .. .facing away from the house....looking down there at his feet was a huge house fly......a magical fly ...with great gorgeous rainbow wings....iridescent ..with two bulging eyes ,,each,,1/2 inch across and. a body ..triangle shaped.. wide . 3 inches wide....next to it was a small flat tan stone.....in one movement he crouched down . picked up the stone..and crashed it down on the fly...to his surprise..when he lifted the stone....the fly was gone...amazing...where did it go???? he didnt know yet that things could fly....
all he had was his family....folks and his older sister.....a cat and a dog ..he didnt really need anything else.....dad had a manual rotary push mower....on saturdays....he would sharpen the blades to make it easier to cut the grass......they loved playing in the yard but weren't allowed to leave it....
when he was 4..he was chasing his sister round and round from the kitchen to the hall then through the swinging door to the dining room and back to the kitchen.. round and round ..he would chase her but she wouldn't chase him....he was wearing pajamas with built in feet..how cute...well he came around running into the dining room and slipped and fell heavily and somehow..in his vision he could see the dining room chair against the wall,a tall ladder back with a corn husk seat ..bounce impossibly high in the air ,maybe 2 feet high and then moved over to where he lay and a leg came crashing down on the top of his head....his mind stopped . ..next thing he knew, he was in a doctors examining room. his dad was holding him horizontally and then placed him on the examing table on his stomach..where he lay, drooling onto the white paper, while the doctor duabed the top of his head with tissue....
it was a little scary at first for the parents, but in time he seemed to recover...time passed....and then when he was old enough he went to SCHOOL