A little girl dragged a scuffed purple bicycle across the sticky floor of a noon-day bar and tried to trade it for her father.
She could barely see over the counter. Grease on her cheeks. Glitter stickers flaking off her helmet like cheap hope.
“Sir,” she said, her voice steady in that way a nine-year-old makes herself steady, “will you …
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