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On Wednesday morning, around 11 a.m., I drove to the Linda Vista Skatepark to carve bowls and talk to people about music, not realizing that the folks who frequent the park around that time were pool-skating monsters. While I was waiting to use the small pool, I sat and watched roller derby girls doing backflips off the ramp.
I migrated to the medium pool where a shirtless wook was skating across the walls like an atom in a particle accelerator. He zipped around parallel to the horizon, only ever going perpendicular in order to flourish his line with nose grinds.
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Abbey Wicks 
Nick Hancock