“That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.”

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This reads as a memory about imitation becoming vocation. The mask is not just costume, it points to a family tradition that made wrestling feel like another world, one both playful and serious. It lands when someone first falls in love with a craft through a relative, and later realizes that private play was already teaching them how to belong to it.

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Originally said in English.

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