Now I Am Captain Hook

I used to play both Peter Pan and Captain Hook When I was a child, being dramatic and loud. My prissy sister had to be Tinkerbelle and Wendy. This made the swashbuckling scenes more difficult. As Peter Pan I would do a bit of sword play from the porch railing. Jump down, switch capes, yell “Now I’m Captain Hook” and jump back up. The neighborhood children loved the silliness of it. I was out of breath by the time the play was over. My sister Wendy/Tinkerbelle was not sweaty or out of breathe. We are identical twins, but not in the ways that count I guess. I thought I was daring and brave. The porch railing was ten feet high. Years later I discovered I was wrong; it was not even three feet.