Consider Mim's entry in the 1962 Girls Day competition. Featuring crafts & baked goods, Girls Day was open to all local elementary & high school girls.
A few years after Ian died, Mim paid him honor by entering two model air craft in the competition. Ian LOVED making models, with his completed planes hanging from the ceiling of his room. What a lovely tip of the hat to a much missed younger brother.
It took her a long time to get both done - and done beautifully - but Mim did a model of the Wright brothers' plane & one of a Mercury rocket. She called her entry "From Kitty Hawk to Cape Canaveral."
When the time came for the prizes to be handed out, we were crushed that Mim didn't get at least 3rd place. The three of us sat there - Mim, Mom, moi - grumbling that it was too unusual for the judges to appreciate. Too boyish.
We crumbled too soon. Mim didn't get 3rd, nor 2nd, nor a 1st place blue ribbon - she received Best in Show!
Little could the three of us guess, sitting there with our jaws dropped & our hearts bursting, that the three of us would one day stand on the banks of Cape Canaveral & watch a Saturn rocket soar into the bright blue Florida skies - a wondrous full circle.
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