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Did you know monsters?

Monsters are we?

We have all asked our parents to walk to the corner store,

begged for a little bit of change to buy candy or ice cream,

alone and unsupervised.

We are all guilty of this.

I mean, why wouldn't we be? It's a rite of passage, a sign of independence.

The first big moment of being a big kid is walking to the store and back.

Hearing an infamous speech, now go straight there and straight back. Don't talk to no strangers or get nobody's car. And I want all my change back too.

A moment that has happened a million times, to a million people, and has never ended in rape, murder, or both.

It was the summer of 1984.

The Midwest city of Gary, Indiana was no stranger

to the sounds of Black Joy.

Cars passed by blasting WGCI,

while little boys played catch catch and the little girls played

double dutch in the middle of the street.

Temeika Turks, age seven, and her aunt, Annie Hillert, who was nine, doll balls bounced to the rhythm

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