Yes Virginia, There is Life After Roller Derby
VIRGINIA, your derby friends are wrong. They have been affected and infected by a sport that takes hold of you, your very soul, and holds on to you. They do not see outside of the track. They think all things over the crash zone line are incomprehensible, and impossible. In this great universe of ours, there is more than the skates on your feet, and the helmet on your head. Yes VIRGINIA, there is life after roller derby. It exists as certainly as does that place you lay out your gear when it is wet, sweaty and gross (that is called your house). Alas, how dreary the world would be should this life not exist. How dreary the world would be if there were no VIRGINAS, those broken and battered bodies, men women and more, who saw something fantastic and heard sounds beyond the drone of the in house announcer saying their name. The eternal light of vacation, lost or forgotten talents, and a straight/pain free spine would be gone were it not for the life outside. Not to believe in life aft...