In elementary school, I was royalty. Queen of double dutch. There were others that challenged me to duels for my title, but only I prevailed. I didn’t come about this title easily. It took an immense amount of days to even be able to jump in. You see, everyday at recess all the girls would leap for the bucket of jump ropes. We all loved to sing our nursery rhymes and see who could jump the longest and I was nowhere near the best. Of course jumping rope alone got boring so we started to use the big ropes and jump in groups. Eventually that became unappealing as well and we decided to try something completely new, jumping with two ropes. It was nearly impossible to do. How do you spin two ropes at once without having them get caught on each
