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So this last section
I'm going to read,

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is just moving
forward a little bit

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Jean Patrick has gotten to
Butare his coach met him

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and he's staying with his coach,
and the first day they were

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there, his coach took him--

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Butare is very hilly,
I've run on those hills,

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and they are they're very steep.

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So his coach has took him the
first morning he was there,

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his coach took him out
and ran him on this path,

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this track that he
was going to train on

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to do this hill repeats.

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And so the next
morning, Jean Patrick

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is a very stubborn person, and
he likes to have his own way.

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He was supposed to
wait for his coach,

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but he decided to sneak
out early just at daybreak

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before the curfew
to run by himself.

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So this is where
he's gone on his run,

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and he finds himself
suddenly lost,

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and of course, it has to do
with love because there's always

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love in a novel right?

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"Jean Patrick must
have missed a turn.

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Now he started up
an unfamiliar path,

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stopping beside a tree
to get his bearings.

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One hill is as good
as another he thought.

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He tied his jacket around his
waist and began his intervals.

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Passers by turn their heads,
children chased after him,

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goats scurried out of his way.

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Jean Patrick did
high steps and butt

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kicks, forcing the cadence until
he tasted tin on his tongue.

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Light streamed through
the eucalyptus,

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melted into a luminous haze.

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By his third interval,
he had to grit his teeth

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and half closed his
eyes to reach the end.

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In his wake, a chorus of
dogs sounded an alarm.

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The goal was in sight when
a gate opened directly

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in his path and startled him
from his meditative state.

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'Quickly Come inside' A hand
pulled him into the yard.

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The gate closed with a screech
behind him. 'Are you hurt?'

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The lilt of the woman's
voice remained in the air

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like the first chords of a hymn.

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She locked the gate and slipped
the key ring onto her wrist.

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The world jolted into focus and
an involuntary shudder passed

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through him.

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She looked as surprised
as he, her eyes bright

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and round as a
startled bushbuck.

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'Did someone hurt you?'

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She asked again.

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'Come in the house.

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No one will search
for you here.'

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Her disheveled hair
fell to her shoulders.

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Her clothing hung
slightly askew,

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as if she had hastily thrown
on her wrap and the shawl that

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draped nearly to her feet.

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'I don't understand.'

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Jean Patrick felt
suddenly naked.

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'I thought you needed help.'

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He fumbled with his jacket.

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'I thought maybe your husband--

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I thought maybe
something bad happened.'

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The woman hid her
mouth with her hand.

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A sound between a sneeze
and a laugh escaped.

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'Mana yanjye, you thought that?

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And here I thought
someone was chasing you.'

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'No, madam.'

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'You looked like you
were in terrible pain.'

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'No Madam.

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I was running.'

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'Because you wanted to?

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A jogger?

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Ko Mana.' She tucked a strand
of hair behind her ear.

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Beneath her shawl she
wore a wrap pattern

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with orange suns and
pink-ringed planets.

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Gold zigzags of lightning
streaked across the fabric.

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'A runner.' Jean Patrick
corrected. 'Im in training.'

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Outside the gate, a crowd
of children chattered.

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He could see the bottoms
of their dirty legs,

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their broken flip-flops.

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'You have a fan club,' the
woman said, 'I heard the dogs,

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and when I saw you, I assumed
some thugs were on your heels.'

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She gathered her shawl around
her 'It would not have been

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the first time.'

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'And what if I
had been a thief?'

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Jean Patrick said,
stepping closer.

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'What if you had invited me
into your home and I had robbed

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you?'

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She motioned toward the
children who dash back and forth

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against the gate.

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'You wouldn't have gotten far.

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My neighbors are very tough.

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They would have caught
you and dragged you back.'

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Jean Patrick couldn't
guess her age.

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At first he thought her 24
or 25, but in the sunlight,

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her features took on
a schoolgirl look.

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Behind her, he glimpsed
a garden and a yard

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thick with fruit trees.

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A heady perfume of flowers
came from her skin.

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He did not want to leave.

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He could have rested beside
her and watched her wrap ripple

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about her feet until the waxed
suns crossed the cloth sky.

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Inside the house, dishes
clatter and a radio clicked on.

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A woman's voice called
out, 'Bea, where are you?'

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A door banged.

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Two children, a girl and a boy,
exploded through the opening,

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skin shining with Vaseline.

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Bea opened her
shawl and enfolded

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them like are taking her
chicks beneath a wing.

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Jean Patrick's heart sank.

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'I'm just coming,' she called.

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She took the keys from her
wrist and unlocked the gate.

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'Well be safe then,' she
said to Jean Patrick.

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She pushed the gate open,
exposing a well muscled calf.

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The little boy perched on
her feet and rode her steps.

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What could John Patrick do
but thank her and walk out

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into the morning
through the space

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the children made for him?

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Bea.

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Beatrice.

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The blessed one.

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He readjusted his jacket and
jogged toward the next hill.

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It was useless.

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The girl called Bea had
knocked the wind out of him.

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For the first time since a
calf cramp had felled him

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on the day Rutembeza became his
coach, Jean Patrick gave up.

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All the way back, her face
remained in front of him.

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He could have placed a palm
on her high cheekbones,

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felt her sun warm skin,
the color of strong tea,

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traced the almond slant of
her eyes with a finger."

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And I'll stop there.

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Thank you.

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