Bobby’s Race

My mother and her sister are twins
Sharon and Shannon
They had some friends
Tammy and Pammy
One of them had an ‘intellectually disabled’ (I believe this to be the politically correct version of the term these days) son named Bobby
Bobby passed away early and I was young when I went to his funeral
But someone told this story of him and I never forgot
He was running in a foot race in some kind of special olympics games
And as they were racing
Some girl tripped and fell
Everyone kept running
But Bobby
He looked over his shoulder and saw her
Turned around to help her up
And helped her walk across the finish line together in last place
And I believe that Bobby won the race