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When they were not looking, he took the rod up a notch, then yelled, “One more time: set, go!� and they jumped over it, one after the other. He raised it a few more times before the boys caught on and said, “Ah! Ah! Fada!� He laughed and said he believed they could jump higher than they thought they could. And that they had just proved him right. It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was
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