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lawyer sister, Rochelle, who lived in D.C. and had three 16
children by as many men.
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“She’d be a welfare mother if she wasn’t a lawyer,” she 18
said at one point.
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I was thinking that Rochelle didn’t sound any different 20
from many men that I had known. Men who bounced 21
from woman to woman, creating babies as they went.
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Clarance was like that. There were at least three women 23
who he admitted having children by. He was proud of his 24
virility.
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I was thinking about Rochelle’s masculine approach, 26
but I didn’t care. Instead I stopped there on the sandy S 27
beach and kissed Rochelle’s girly sister.
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Narciss didn’t resist. She had been waiting for it. Her
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left arm snaked up around my neck while her right hand 2
gripped my biceps. Her tongue was quick to find mine.
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We stood there in each other’s arms until my legs began 4
to ache. That was about 5:30. I broke away long enough 5
to suggest that we drive back to my house. We made it to 6
the car, but it was almost 7:00 before I turned the ignition 7
key and started back toward home.
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All that time we had only been kissing. Lips and necks.
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Her dress was sleeveless, so sometimes I kissed her arms.
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She leaned over me now and again, resting her forearm on 11
my erection, but that was as close as we came to sex until 12
we got back to my place.
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The drive back was more than an hour. She filled up 14
the minutes talking about my aunts’ diaries and what im-15
portance they held.
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“It’s what real history is made of,” Narciss said. She was 17
reclining comfortably in her seat. The window was open 18
and the wind blew across her face. “Recipes and funerals, 19
petty disputes and detailed explanations of social gaffes.
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There’s some talk about race but not as much as you’d ex-21
