I Remember the Mitt

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http://www.easyvectors.com/browse/other/baseball-glove-clip-art 

Some people don’t like things that remind them of the death of close friend or family member, however, I feel differently. Allie’s left handed baseball mitt reminds me so much of him and the kind of person he was. He was very intelligent yet athletic at the same time; some people think that those two combinations aren’t possible (kind of like my “pal” Stradlater). Allie wrote poems in green ink all over that mitt and it was one of those special things that you remember about a person and how they acted.  Allie was also a genuinely nice boy all the time and I wondered how a person could have such a trait – one that I envied though. I miss him terribly, I remember a few summers ago seeing Allie watching me from outside the fence as I played golf and you never missed him with that red hair of course. His hair wasn’t like the usual red hair, it didn’t give Allie all of the traits that you would think red hair would give someone; he was different.  Getting back to the mitt, when Stradlater told me to write about something disruptive, Allie and his mitt automatically popped into my head and I felt that I could write effectively on that topic because I feel proud of him. I remember the mitt. Please reference the link above in the video bar, and watch the video called "How its Made" and see how a baseball glove is made, hopefully you can connect like I can.