9 Sep 2023 12:49 pm
No, he didn’t bother anybody.
And he couldn’t help being a 120 pound boy around the rest of us who were born to be average size or better. I never allowed any bully to torment him.
Looking back I am so grateful I’ve spent all my 65 years as a typical Scottish sized Christian boy.
By the time I was 15 and got almost all my growth that summer my mother could go buy me suits right off the store mannequins and they’d fit.
When my mother came to visit on Parent’s Weekend that wrestler boy’s mother used to hug my Mama and thank her, for raising up such a good son.
Stuck yet in my mind is my mother leaning down to that tiny woman and saying but you raised a boy so tough he’s a wrestling champion.
Then when all the tears and thank you’s we’re over and the runt left the lobby I’d gather up a couple of girls to sing Game of Triangles for Mama.
https://youtu.be/AgXGdM_IcGk?si=KY0lqrWzV8oO88Hd