~ALL STARTED when one of my two best friends， Stevie<br >~ke， fell out of a tree. Slid down is probably a more<br >i~curate way to put it. She was straddling a branch and<br >~id down it， backside first. Unfortunately for Stevie， her<br >ithree brothers were there at the time and they thought<br >~e scene was hilarious.<br >ii~! But Stevie wasn t exactly laughing when she ended up<br >~the ground， fifteen feet below where she d started<br >~m. She had an excruciating pain where she sat down<br >~except she couldn t sit down because the pain was too<br > xcruciating).<br >i!，i The doctors said she had bruised her coccyx. For some<br >~ople， that s not a tragedy. It just means you can t sit<br >down for a while. But for Stevie， it was the worst possible<br >news--if you can t sit， you can t ride a horse. And she，<br > 7~ 3<br >