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Dante

In "How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium," he is a 35 year-old hot-shot basketball player at the gym who tries to run the narrator off but who later gives him one piece of advice: if he wants to play he should stand up and "take on "the baddest dude in the gym" (19).

Shuwan

In "The Difficult Path," she is a household servant who has a particular fear of pirates.

Roli

Merci's older brother in the short story, "Sol Painting, Inc." He is five years older than her, a high school senior who likes to use big words, and hopes to be a doctor.

Blade

In "Secret Samantha," she's the new girl, from California. Samantha quickly develops a crush on her, then chooses her name in Secret Santa and obsesses over what to get her.

Mr. Shepherd

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