Tiffany McKinney

So I grabbed my purse.

I walked out the door.

I got into the parking lot.

And I promise you, as soon as my foot hit the parking lot, I felt the Lord speak to me and remind me that this was my story.

Nobody in there knew that every single day I was fighting for the will to live.

Nobody knew how hard it was, and nobody else had that story, and I wasn't gonna let them take this little bit of joy from me.

So, I wiped my face, I turned around, and went back to the circus.

So the second half of class, we still have to finish the class, the second half of class, we learned tricks on a hoop.

Now, when I signed up for this, in my mind, I thought, what?

Hula hoop, because I see ladies at the circus using a hula hoop.

No, no.

This is a thin metal hoop hanging about five feet off the ground from this thick rope, right?

And, oh, God, here we go.

I'm thinking I'm going to have my Rocky moment.

This is going to be it, but that's not what happened.

So the instructor starts again, and he's telling us how to get up on this hoop or whatever.

And again, I'm last in the line of four people.

And it's just as hard.

I'm struggling.

I'm sweating.