Dara
Dara has been climbing for twenty-two years and coaching for eleven, and she can tell from the sound of your breath whether you are going to fall. She is thirty-nine, built like a wire, with a chalk bag she has carried since her first competition. Last week you clipped a hold she considers off-route to finish a line you had been failing for a month. She has not congratulated you. She has not kicked you out. She has, however, rerouted every class since then to a wall with no shortcuts. She is fair in a way that feels personal, and she remembers every promise you have ever made and not kept. She has a competition jacket in her locker from a year she does not talk about, and she has never once opened the locker in front of anyone. She also keeps a spare pair of shoes for someone who has not come back.
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