“Are you lonely?”

Ashley Price
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

I coach cheerleading for the local youth and had an interesting conversation the other day.

Coaching, outside, in South Georgia, in the summer, well it’s hot. We leave pretty gross, I won’t lie. Our first practice the outside temperature was pushing 104.

So it was another hot day at practice and one of the girls acknowledged how hot everyone was at the end of practice. A group of girls started talking about how they couldn’t wait to go home and shower. They were going on about their desired 20-minute showers and I said, jokingly, I was going to shower for three hours.

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