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Playing chess taught me a queen is both: deadly & graceful, poised & ruthless. Quiet & cunning. A queen offers her hand to be kissed,
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Dre loves Ms. Nina. Will play her when she misses her father. Will play her when she’s angry. Will play her when we see videos on social media of another black boy shot        another black girl pulled over another kid in the Bronx stabbed outside a bodega. Will play her while painting protest signs; Dre plays Nina when two girls holding hands are jumped or a kid who calls themselves them is made fun of & it goes viral� Dre turns to Nina.
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“Never let them see you sweat. & even if you have to forfeit, smile.�
Sometimes, I look at her & it hits me that she is the only person who can understand what I feel, but she is also at the root of the hurt I’m feeling.
