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?The Black Girl Next Door?

Published January 8, 2009, 9:52 pm, New York Times

?On an early autumn morning in 1975, as fog rolled off the Pacific Ocean and covered the Vista Grande School playground, my first-grade girlfriends and I decided to squeeze in a quick foot race before school began.?

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