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Bubba: gangbanger, handball champ, panther black, if anybody messed with me-my St. Nicholas Avenue shank. One day squeezing a handball, Bubba confided in me, (me whose tongue was always tied above untied saddle shoes; me who kept myself at low tide - so there'd be less of me to mess with.) Bubba confided in me that he speaks to leaves.
Norma: in 8th-grade algebra and French - could teach teachers parlez vous and par-lez-nomiak.
High school. Bubba dropped out, unleashed pimp-limp, do-rag nigranometry on 145th street. Norma - booted. Could have expelled her swelling belly, but left her brain where it belonged...