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Soccer Summer
For an early summer, 3rd grade slowly crawling to a close, the pool still flat in its first sunbeams, in which freckles were soon lillypadding our faces, the schoolyard came abuzz for one last time.
Within all cliques and corners, underneath desks and sitting on top soaky gym benches, heads began sticking together as soccer stickers doubling as trading cards, carefully weighted by both rarity and the man's mane, exchanged hands.
With the album safely tucked away in the backpack, all the real treasures were collecting up in my chest pocket.
The boys from Brazil had replaced the usual assortment of popsicle sticks, chewing gum, and a bug or two. All unburdened now from the shirt mysteriously disappearing in the washer for weeks on end.
I. Le tigre
Since Mom's funeral, everything had flown out the window and my trusty faux-french polo grown onto a second skin.
And as attempting to not only fill the void within our atomized family, Dad kept the sticker packs coming. For once, 'long now observing a full six days of TV dinners, a coping mechanism I could deal with. We'd still take the Volvo over to Burger King on Sundays.
“… and not a word to the Aunties.”
Like I’d be talking!
Toast-in-mouth, I made myself disappear in my bedroom, one by one fired my sneakers into the corner, fished the sticker album out the backpack, balanced the still naked Wonderbread on top of the ant farm-in-a-making cocoa container, to finally plop onto my bed.
Flat on my tummy, the album flipped open on England's double spread, a good layer o’ ersatz Nutella now blanketing the toast, I fumbled my last pack of stickers out of a grass-stained back pocket, where it had been patiently waiting since today's incarnation of mystery meat avec peas.
Glistering in the bedside lamp's light, the thin aluminum wrapper crackled with a small promise.
Running my fingers above its embossed trademark knight, I at last reached for the tear-off strip lingering across the top.
I closed my eyes and held onto a mouthful of air.
One Mississippi.
Two Mississippi.
"God, please not another Lothar Matthäus!"
The smell of tight sitting glue emerged, one only rivaled by the thick, carrot-like tang embodied into the pulp of a million mimeographed worksheets, that had us all grown into suburban, soon cold bunny till September, junkies.
I opened my eyes and, one by one, freed the squad out of their own casket.
It were mostly minor mullets, and fast thumbing through the album: doubles! -But! sporting green kit, reflecting a sheepish smirk and what looked like a forced haircut of his own: Jesús.
I quickly finished up the toast to tuck the sticker album under my pillow. Slightly askew, Mexico’s number 16 awaiting the rest of his teammates.
Perhaps tomorrow I could trade some in, maybe John would be back too. It was still a full week till the first World Cup matches came beaming in from across the Atlantic.
Shame my sister wasn't collecting –
or leaving her room.
After tunneling out of my shirt, leaving behind the bread's last fragments in the fabric, I, as doubling as a boyhood bible, unearthed Pippi Longstocking in the South Seas out from the depths of my nightstand drawer.
Where as mimeographed, Mom’s molecules had become embedded within the browning pages.
It still smelled of black coffee and hospital hallways.
words, mimo like waves, memo rolling, rolling, mammo- rolling. Mama gram. cresting over my head.
It had been eight weeks, the book a life raft. No land in sight.
I untangled my fingers and kept leafing on, across side notes and dogear treasures, till England’s silver-metallic Three Lions came gleaming in, still guarding our last page.
With Pippi Longstocking jacketing my chest, the lamp’s light cone collapsed into a black hole.
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#words#writing#autobiographical#growing up#coming of age#personal#mom#loss#cancer#suburbia#soccer#football#footie#panini#trading cards#world cup#england#mimeograph#le tigre#pippi longstocking#soccer summer
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reblog and explain your answer in the tags!
#olympics#women’s sports#usually the summer Olympics I watch less#but women’s rugby is awesome and I’ll probably watch soccer#poll tag
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Being a teacher means bringing up bae whenever you can 🫶
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Blue lock the end of U-20 Ark
Anybody remember that Italian manwhore summer meme, the one with the soccer...
#blue lock#isagi yoichi#rin itoshi#itoshi sae#sae x shidou#shidou kirisaki#soccer memes#saeshidou#blue lock u-20#bluelock#Italian manwhore summer#raysae#my art
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Action Shots!
#summer vibin'#ready for summer#summer vibes#summer#summertime#soccer ball#soccer#futbol#sports#fun in the sun#weekend vibes#pets of the week#weekend fun#sunday funday#dog photos#doglover#dogs#dog#dogofinstagram#dogoftheday#dog of tumblr#dog owner#doglife#dogphotography#dogposting#dog pics#dog parent#dog obedience#dog of the day#dog lover
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Batman and Robin and Howard: Summer Breakdown #1
#Batman and robin and Howard: summer breakdown#batman and robin and howard#Batman#bruce wayne#robin#dick grayson#Howard#ninjas#soccer#jeffrey brown#dc comics#comics#2020s comics
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Cheers 🥂
#ali krieger#beautiful#glowingera#kriegeriskriegering#uswnt#women soccer#sheisgivingandsheisliving#summer babe
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#the summer hasn’t disappointed so far 🗽#jess carter#ann katrin berger#chelsea fcw#how cute are they#wlw#football#footy#womens football#gotham fc#nwsl#wsl#womens super league#barclays wsl#cfcw#women’s soccer#lionesses#germany wnt#up the chels#blueisthecolour#woso#woso community#chelsea women#chelsea women fc#lgbtq#New York
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Hoy inicia la Summer Cup. Si eres de México lo dan en Disney+
#woso#woso appreciation#woso community#woso soccer#liga mx femenil#tigres femenil#nwsl#Summer Cup#uswnt#woso imagine
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#james yates#blonde#hot#stud#perfect abs#football#model#summer#muscles#soccer#garden#biceps#pecs#male pecs#male model#hot guy#cute guy#handsome#hunk#gifs#swimming shorts
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#photos#images#image#pictures#photo#picture#pics#pic#originals#photography#film photography#analog#analogic#rj#rio#rio de janeiro#brazil#br#brasil#summer#beach#tropical#sea#ocean#soccer#boys#men
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Ramos: You’re a horrible person!
Piqué: Maybe. But I’m rich and I’m pretty, so it doesn’t really matter.
#on summer break so expect more quotes!#source: perchance generator#incorrect football quotes#incorrect soccer quotes#incorrrect quotes#real madrid#rma#madridista#barca#barça#fc barcelona#barcelona#fc barca#fc barça#fcb#sergio ramos#ramos#gerard pique#gerard piqué#pique#piqué#serard#spain nt#spain national team#selección española
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Devastated is an understatement
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Nastylot moodboard with soccer themes
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#frog's boards#moodboard#yellowjackets#lottie matthews#misty quigley#natalie scatorccio#soccer aesthetic#soccer#summer#late night summer#i loved this one so much#very nostalgic very fun#thank you !!#i hope you like the theme !!
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They have fun 😏😍
#ali krieger#beautiful#glowingera#ocean maeve#family#soccer for all#best mommy#summer#kriegeriskriegering
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