For the past couple years, she’d been using a Frankenstein bike she assembled from disparate parts, but someone stole it from the Valley bike rack in March. She spent an unjustifiable amount of time watching those bicycle-building video tutorials, a genre dominated by pale, enthusiastic men. She developed a tender attachment to one of the instructors: benevolent eyes, shaved head, rope necklace, rubber watch, Eastern European accent. A tendency to speak in the first-person plural. Encouraging as a kindergarten teacher. “We CAN do it, even if we are a beginner! I believe we should all of us
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