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Submitted to Contest #322
Ambition is both a protector and a destroyer. Since I was four years old, I remember walking into the one gym that would forever hold my future. I was looking at the gymnasts and seeing their determination through the glass. As I look to my left, I see a brunette woman in a distressed white leotard with the strongest thighs I had ever seen, performing a Tsukahara on the vault (handspring onto the table with a ¼ to ½ turn, then a backflip off). I look to my right, and I see a gorgeous African-American woman in a grayish, blue leotard with gri...
Submitted to Contest #318
“Lola, you’ve got this. You’ve done this a million times before and you’re a natural,” says Emma, my best friend since the fourth grade, as we are on the track field that’s buzzing with a crowd in bright blue and ivory white. The moment we met, I knew there was something special about her. We were both adopted at an early age, and we both had never met anyone who had been through the experience of confusion, isolation, and curiosity that adoptees go through. We were both given up as kids, and for the first time, I’d met someone who truly un...
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