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night of passion with him and the take-home prize was a new life growing inside you. This wasn’t a happily-ever-after Cinderella story.
    Except Gracie had found herself liking Derrick from the get-go; too much in fact. As the day went by she felt as if she had known him for years, like the old friend he was pretending to be. Something about him made her feel comfortable in a way she would never have expected from a man who spent his time with starlets and super models. Given enough time, she could easily find herself falling for him. That would never do. The next morning she determined that she would march up to Derrick and tell him it was time to do the deed. No more mincing around it, no more getting to know each other; time to get the job done, go home and get on with her life.
    But when she came down to the kitchen the next morning, letting her nose lead her with the smells of cooking bacon and freshly baked bread, she found Derrick dressed and ready for the outdoors.
    “Morning sunshine!” he greeted, bright eyed and bushy tailed even though it was only eight AM.
    “I didn’t think you movie stars woke until after noon. Something about beauty rest?”
    “Not me,” Derrick winked at her, “I don’t need it. Now grab some breakfast. I thought we could go for a ride. The view is great in the morning when the mist is just starting to rise off the mountains.”
    Derrick’s positive attitude was contagious and Gracie couldn’t help but comply. Maybe she could tell him that they needed to get down to business after their trail ride. She ate quickly and soon she and Derrick were outside in the stable. The sun was on the rise and so was the temperature. The light frost that had settled in overnight was beginning to disappear as the golden glow fell on the landscape. It promised to be a beautiful day. Derrick led Gracie down the center aisle of a large barn, rows of stalls lining both sides. Horses from both sides whinnied their greeting to Derrick as he passed, as if asking to be chosen for the day’s adventure.
    “Calypso will be a great horse for you,” said Derrick, stopping in front of the stall of a white horse with brown spots on her face and body. “She’s gentle and patient. Lex’s boys actually learned to ride on her. She does all the work for you, all you have to do is climb on.”
    “Oh I know how to ride,” Gracie replied. “In fact, I practically grew up riding.”
    “Really? You didn’t mention it before, you know, in the application.”
    “There wasn’t a space for it,” Gracie smiled, “unless I skipped that page.”
    “Tell me about it,” Derrick asked. “How’d you learn?”
    Gracie thought back a moment. “After my parents died in the crash and my brothers and I moved to Carolina to live with Nana I was a pretty lost little girl. Everything I had known was gone, and I needed something to cling on to, something to occupy my mind. Nana had a friend who owned a farm. He boarded horses and taught lessons, and Nana thought that it would be the perfect thing for me. And she was right. Being around the horses made me feel comfortable and safe. And once I mastered riding - being able to control an animal ten times my size - I realized that I could be in control of my own life, I didn’t have to live in fear of the unpredictable fate that had taken my parents away.”
    “Later, as I grew into my teens, I think that horses saved me from choosing the wrong paths. While a lot of other underprivileged black girls like me were out getting into all kinds of trouble- drugs, sex, things like that- I was all about horses. I would go straight from school to the farm.” Gracie began to giggle.
    “What?”
    “It’s just funny,” she said, “a lot of girls ended up pregnant before they hit twenty. But not me - I knew that if I held out, my equipment would be worth something someday.” They both burst into laughter, mostly at the absurdity of the whole situation.
    Gracie decided to go with