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Look at our boots and spurs!
No I don’t dance horses I am not a mariachi I am not a baile folklorico dancer I am not the half-time show or the intermission I am not just a pretty woman sitting on a horse that is standing still I am a charra with extraordinary riding skills I am sitting sidesaddle drenched in my own sweat buried in a heavy, layered dress while I control 1,000 pounds of muscle beneath me I am enacting a dangerous mathematically precise routine at full velocity I have fallen off of my horse suffered concussions broken bones, been dragged and trampled on So, the next time you see a woman dressed like me look for the boots and spurs and then you will know who I am