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Stars ppt
1. I tried for stars By Neil Baker Click the image to move through the story
2. I bought the face paint at the stall where they sold those cute Peruvian hats. All the girls wear them at festivals. We chose one together; a knit of oranges, reds and yellows. You looked cool, I said, like a funky gnome. I tried on a straw trilby. Dad , you said. I took it off.
3. The tubes of paint were my idea. I went for day-glo orange and sapphire blue. We sat on dusty grass under the summer sun and I daubed an orange stripe across your freckled cheeks; a wavy sea-blue line above; a blob of orange on your sun-pinked nose. A band played anthemic rock and the sun began to dip and everything seemed perfect. Mum rummaged in her bag for the camera.
4. I started to add more paint. A path of orange from nose to forehead; dots of blue on your chin.
6. But I was clumsy and the colours were colliding. I got paint on my shorts and on your shirt.
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8. Later we bought burritos and you wanted a sip of my perry. I dragged you to a reformed guitar band in a steaming marquee when you wanted to dance elsewhere. These songs meant everything when I was your age, I shouted in your ear.
9. At the end of it all, when it was time to hit the sleeping bags, you wanted to keep going. You’d hooked up with a school friend; a burst of energy from nowhere.
10. Outside our tent, you asked for the face paint. Your mother handed it over.
