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			Chattel Dance
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			Near her feet, two children squat around the edge of a quick-drawn ring, playing marbles in the dirt. A blue-white ball flashes across the space, collides in patterned ricochets and scatters the others outside the circle they have come to know. The little girl with braided hair gathers them together near her knee, aims the blue-white ball, and shoots again.
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