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Eleven

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last update Last Updated: 2025-02-16 16:53:56

Years earlier. . . . . . . . .

PERCY.

As I drove straight for the basket with the ball I could hear the crowd shouting my name. They knew it, I knew it – even before I jumped up and tossed the ball into the net, they knew I’d make the basket and I never disappoint.

People said heaven helped me play basketball, that it was in my veins, I didn’t have to do much to win. Some even said the wind aided me in my games – all funny stories other members of my school team told their younger siblings, I knew but that didn’t stop it from making me more popular but sometimes, popularity isn’t enough…

Everyone knew when my parents passed but nobody knew the fight I had to face to make sure my kid bro wasn’t sent off to an orphanage. It was very difficult convincing cops to leave the care and well being of a ten year old up to his eighteen year old brother but basketball helped convince them. I had been good even then but I was a beast now, giving it my all because I knew that was th
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