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I was scared I would fall, but I knew the people underneath me would catch me. It was my first time flying in a pyramid, and I wasn’t sure if I would like it. It was my first year cheering, and we went to cheer camp to learn some new cheers and stunts. When it was time to try a stunt, the instructor asked,”Who is the lightest”, and everyone said that I was. The instructor told me what to do and to not be scared. I was going to be the main person in the stunt! They wanted me to do a ball-back extension lib. I was really nervous, because this would my first time doing that. When I tried it, my stunt fell. I didn’t want to do it again, but I knew I had to try. We tried it again, and it was a little better, but it still fell. We kept

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