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A shadow fell over me I looked up from my book slightly heavy eyed and was looking up at a young black boy, he was stopped down towards me offering in a language I could hardly understand some bits of jewelry, no more than brightly colored beads on thin leather strips, he shook them they jangled together, he said something like “you like missy very cheap to you” I said “no thanks perhaps another time”
I looked at his bare chest as close to black skin as I have ever seen, lean with slight muscle definition that comes with youth, 17, maybe 19 at most, a pair of heavy cotton drill shorts, the blue colour faded by the beach life, they were long just below his knee, he said something else I looked back to his bright eyes and his brilliant white teeth, his smile pleading with me to buy something from him, I put the palm of
