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["Rejection" by lisa]

What you can do in 8 minutes and 46 seconds

9/14/2020

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  • You can walk 0.44 miles @ 3mph.
  • You can run 0.88 miles @ 6mph.
  • You can drive 5.11 miles in the city @ 35mph.
  • You can drive 8.76 miles on the highway @ 60mph.
  • You can swim 8 to 9 freestyle laps in an Olympic size pool.
  • You can hard-boil an egg.
  • You can eat 141 hard-boiled eggs. (World Record in 2013)
  • You can do the prep-work for a meal.
  • You can bake ten Totino's Pizza Rolls @ 425º.
  • You can ride the Texas Giant roller coaster 2.7 times.
  • You can smoke one cigarette.
  • You can listen to 60% of Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
  • You can read approximately 2,190 words.
  • You can read approximately 8 pages of a novel.
  • You can read the Old Testament Book of Ruth.
  • You can read the New Testament Book of Philippians.
  • You can recite the Hail Mary Prayer six times.
  • You can type "I love you." approximately 219 times.
  • You can handwrite "I love you." approximately 105 times.
  • It is the exact moment in time (0846) that the first plane hit Tower I on 9/11/2001.
  • You can take somewhere between 105 and 175 breaths.
  • You can feel your heart beating somewhere between 526 and 1052 times.
  • You can kneel on a man’s neck.
  • You can nonchalantly keep one hand in your pocket.
  • You can ignore the pleas of bystanders.
  • You can ignore a man crying out, “I can’t breathe.”
  • You can ignore a man whispering for his Mama.
  • You can stop a man’s breath.
  • You can take a life.
  • You can devastate a family.
  • You can incite a Movement.


By Lisa Owens
Inspired by current events - 6/15/2020
A 2nd Place Winner in the WOW (Women on Writing) Q-4 2020 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest !

https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/97-FE1-Q42020EssayContest.html

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Autumn Owens link
9/15/2020 08:34:08 pm

I absolutely LOVE this! <3

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