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" I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. " Hardly." " Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. " Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing." City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating. "
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" While significant strides have been made in the pursuit of life expectancy, healthcare, educational opportunities, and constitutional protections for women, the Supreme Court, in particular, still wrestles with their status, as evidenced by their problems in pursuing equal opportunity in education and employment, reproductive freedom, the military, and violence against women. "
― Vine Deloria Jr. , The Legal Universe: Observations of the Foundations of American Law