Mini-Project #2: Alex Schultheis

My favorite fame-related memento is a signed autobiography of Dominique Moceanu, a member of the women’s gymnastics team at the 1996 Olympic Games. Ever since I was little I loved gymnastics, I loved practicing gymnastics, I loved reading about gymnastics, and most of all I loved watching gymnastics. After the 1996 Olympic Games took place my mom got me tickets to go to a gymnastics show in Philadelphia. After the show my mom and I were walking out to our car when we saw the gymnastics tour bus and at that moment Dominique, my favorite gymnast of all time, was walking outside to get on it. I had just purchased the autobiography of hers inside so I ran up to her and asked if she would sign it for me.
At the time I thought I was the luckiest person in the world to have a signed autobiography of Dominique Moceanu. She was my idol and I was thrilled to have something of hers. Now, however, I am no longer an avid gymnastics follower and to be honest I do not even know where her book is. It is funny to think that at the time I was so excited to have it and would not let it out of my sight and now, only a few years later, I do not even know where it is. The memento itself has definitely lost some of its excitement and interest; however, the memory of getting the memento and how I felt when I got it is still something that I think about and get excited over.