Ben loved Greta who was amazing with a yo yo. Her tricks brought crowds and traffic tie ups. God, she was talented and lovely. Ben could hardly work a tweezers.
She was polite but distant to him. Hans, with his card tricks, had the inside lane on being her guy. Sometimes they teamed up in the park and performed.
Desperate, Ben found a yo yo school in Jersey and signed up. He was awful. Several times he almost hit other students with it while attempting tricks. He broke strings. He complained of a sore wrist. He showed up drunk. Eventually, Oscar, Yo Yo King of Bloomfield, flunked him out.
Word got out about his failure. Greta kept her distance. His life was over.
Then one day a new student showed up--Suzie the Slinky Savage. Boy, could she manipulate that thing. It was like it obeyed her every command. Ben knew this was a skill he could master. His life had meaning again. He would draw his own crowds.
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