When I was 6, I was swinging my teddy bear around in a wide arc around my bedroom on Xmas morning.<\/p>\n

Okay it was 5am and my brothers and sister and I were too excited to sleep and I guess I should not have been swinging the damn thing while jumping up and down on the bed but I was a kid, ok?<\/p>\n

My sister: “You better stop. You’re going to…”<\/p>\n

I fall.<\/p>\n

The corner of my left eye makes contact with my bedside table. Blood everywhere.<\/p>\n

Xmas was postponed until late afternoon, after I got back from the hospital. I got 6 stitches in the corner of my eye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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