The Boy Who Gave Up the Race to Save His Rival

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Marcus shrugged. “Feels weird.”

Coach sat beside him.

“You think new shoes erase the old ones?”

Marcus did not answer.

Coach leaned back against the wall.

“They don’t. They just let the next part of the story happen.”

Marcus wore them the next day.

But he kept the old pair.

Always.

His parents changed too, slowly.

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