In high school, I played Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web.<\/p>\n
I didn’t like spiders at all, they gave me the heeby-jeebies.<\/p>\n
Still, I was grateful for the role.<\/p>\n
It was small, simple, a kid’s play.<\/p>\n
An hours worth of short scenes retelling a beloved children’s story.<\/p>\n
That being said, something magical happened.<\/p>\n
It was magical in the way that you don’t realize it happened until you look back on it.<\/p>\n
I was a scared 17-year-old, trying to navigate the slippery slope of adolescents.<\/p>\n
Holding on to my childhood as the sands of times drained in my hourglass.<\/p>\n
And here I am playing a stupid spider that dies.<\/p>\n
But there was something in the way the kids rushed up to me after the show.<\/p>\n
Something in the way that I bowed alongside my humble pig.<\/p>\n
Something in the way I could feel my onstage demise caused tears to fall.<\/p>\n
I felt important.<\/p>\n
And you can get your goosey bottom that I will never kill another spider again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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