Blue Marble

[michaelboy]

I half-swallowed a marble when I was five and it caused me to choke. My mom turned me upside-down in the living room and started pounding my back in a futile attempt to dislodge it. I still remember that incredible feeling of her desperation. I had swallowed my tongue and remember her finally reaching in with her fingers to free it and the marble. When I was a bit older, she told me that I was turning blue and she thought I might die.




Sometimes when I miss her, I especially remember this, just because...

Comments

[keplers_angels]

My mother swallowed a marble when she was a toddler -- same thing -- her mom was able to scoop it out of her throat.

And then there's Eliza Doolittle...

Marbles are enticing though, aren't they? I get it.

[michaelboy]

Interesting common ground. While Higgins had an intent and purpose with Eliza, your mother and I were simply rather enticed. :)