Lorene Cary - Black Ice (1991)

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When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

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I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

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I had no option but to succeed and no doubt that I could will my success.

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Black ice is the smoothest naturally occurring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art.

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But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children.

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In the aftermath of Black Is Beautiful, I began to feel black and blue.

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