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She went in the overstuffed garage and returned a few minutes later wheeling a red ten-speed.

Way, way more than I needed to buy a new inner tube for my old ten-speed.

It was now July and I had ridden my ten-speed—yes, my old one, though I had bought a new inner tube—over to Arnold’s house.

“Absolutely. It’s more money than I could even think of having. It wasn’t that long ago I was wondering where to get enough money to buy an inner tube for my ten-speed. Now I could buy a whole new bike. I could buy a bunch of them.”

One minute I was twelve years old and wondering where I could get enough money for an inner tube for my old used ten-speed.