The instructor put his arm around the boy's shoulder and said quietly, "Son, you can do it, and I will tell you how."
Speaking slowly and with conviction, he said, "Throw your heart over
the bar and your body will follow."
That is what the boy did and he turned in a performance on the bar high above the ground that surprised even him. He was never afraid again.
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