Excerpt from a Future Interview*
May. 30th, 2012 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutInterviewer: And to what do you attribute your phenomenal rebounding skills off the glass**?
Simone***: Well, you have to understand, I grew up with a twin sister who is just as big and tough as I am. Maybe a little bigger. We were very rough and tumble together. So essentially, I spent my whole childhood learning to box out my opponent and insist that the ball was "Mine!"
*Simone professed in the pages of her preschool book that she wants to be a basketball player when she grows up. When she doesn't want to be a firefighter, gardener or astronaut, at least.
** Sports interviewers are habitually redundant.
*** I know, I promised never to write a book in my child's voice. Well, this isn't a book...
Simone***: Well, you have to understand, I grew up with a twin sister who is just as big and tough as I am. Maybe a little bigger. We were very rough and tumble together. So essentially, I spent my whole childhood learning to box out my opponent and insist that the ball was "Mine!"
*Simone professed in the pages of her preschool book that she wants to be a basketball player when she grows up. When she doesn't want to be a firefighter, gardener or astronaut, at least.
** Sports interviewers are habitually redundant.
*** I know, I promised never to write a book in my child's voice. Well, this isn't a book...
