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Jeepers creepers, she was fast…… so fast! This was the fastest she had ever been. She just absolutely loved her new bicycle. The coloured tassels sprouting from the handgrips stood horizontal from the speed, so did her hair. Her long, lithe ebony legs pushed the black rubber pedals round and around. This was faster than the school bus even. Wow, this was the best birthday present ever! Grace Benjamin pedalled her cherry red Schwinn Hollywood along the sidewalk for block after block, getting closer to town. It was early Saturday morning so traffic was almost none existent. For an 11 year old, she looked more like 16. She was tall, like her Dad, tallest girl in her year, and her body had started to transform from a gangly girl into a young woman’s. She had noticed how the older boys in her school looked at her; even some of the white men folk had started looking at her differently. There was a hungry look in their eyes, she didn’t understand why, but she had noticed. But right now she didn’t care, all she wanted was to go faster and faster. She was coming up to the first big intersection in town, but she had a green light so she put her head down further over the handlebars and pedalled even faster leaving the sidewalk to cross the road, a huge grin on her face.

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