The accident.

July 27, Greenville.

All everybody is talking about today, how Julio and Deya's eight-year-old daughter, Doricela broke her arm. It happened right after the last show, as the usual gang of circus kids was playing at pushing each other down a slope behind the trailers, pushing each other down the slope on top of a dolly, and the dolly doubled over and Doricela fell and fell badly, and next thing she's going home to her trailer and her parents are more scared than she is, she must have been so shocked she didn't even cried, said Deya, she just said it hurts, and it was Deya who was crying.
They rushed her to the nearest hospital, and we would only find out the next morning as we woke up and prepared to leave and here was Julio's trailer with chairs and hula hoops still stacked outside, and the truck gone. Dori had surgery and the family spent the night at the hospital. They arrived here later today.
In far more mundane news, after the shows we went to Wal-mart, right next to the lot, as did everybody else, we kept bumping into one or another and the parking lot was dotted with Kelly Miller Circus vans and trucks.

Doricela (in the middle) at her and Georgia's birthday party, on April 21. Her father, Julio Rosales, is at left behind Georgia.