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Jean Shepherd's Glasses Revealed In A Christmas Story
She throws her glasses down on the grass even though she can’t think of anything more embarrassing then stepping on her glasses even at the age of twenty. She imagines the same feeling in her stomach as when Ralphie steps on his glasses in A Christmas Story. They’re parallel to her and she gets a running start to do a roundoff. A cartwheel. Some handstands. She’s more alone in this park than in what is now her backyard. Every time the universe urges her to visit, it makes sure to give her a private session. She looks for her glasses and with every crunch of a leaf she can hear Jean Shepherd narrating in her head ‘Pulverized’. But this isn’t her first time searching for glasses. She kept them parallel for a reason and spots them in a few seconds.

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