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We stood, separated by space, certainly, in identical conditions of pleasant uncertainty and anticipation, and we both held our heart in our hands, all pink and palpitating and ready for pleasure and pain, and we were about to throw these hearts in each other's faces like snowballs, or cricket balls (How's that?) or, more accurately, like great bleeding wounds: "Take my wound". Because the last thing one ever thinks at such moments is that he (or she) will say: Take my wound, please remove the spear from my side. No, not at all; one simply expects to get rid of one's one.

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Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration.

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Mum bought me _ite for my sixth birthday. It was beautiful. Snowy white with long tail of ribbons. Sheheld the string, and I ran and ran as fast as I _ould, but it kept dropping to clumsy heap on the ground. When I gottired Mum took over, holding it high above her head and running and running until, all at once, _udden wonderful gust of wind took the kite soaring high, high into the sky, so I had to squint to see it.__old on, Rosie!_ Mum had called. __old tight!_ And _ did, gripping the string with all my might as the kite danced high up above, gleaming bright whiteagainst the blue sky, its ribbons sparkling in the sunlight as it flew, soaring and dipping like _ird, forever pulling at the string in my hand __igher, higher _ tugging to getfree. Then I let go.The string snapped from my grip and was gone. Mum raced after it,but it was too fast,soaring up,up and away, higher than the trees. She scooped me up in _ug and told me it was all right, she'd buy me another one. But I didn't want another one. That was my kite,andit was free. I__ let it go.It__ wanted so much to be free that I just couldn't hold on, couldn__ hold it down. I smiled as I watched it whirl away _ above the trees, above the birds, above the clouds, sparkling into the heavens, dancing free. It was the most beautiful thing I _ave ever seen.

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Katie Dale

Someone Else's Life

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From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths. I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history. How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world.

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Patricia J. Williams

The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice