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Gritty in Pink 

In a quest for fame and fortune, a unicycling superhero battles the stigma of a troubled past.

Wednesday, Jan 28 2009
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Maxfield believes his impending success will allow him to buy his own home, and he already knows exactly how he'll decorate. He has some outstanding footage of people's reactions to his pinking, which he loves to watch again and again. There's one particular shot from Tokyo of a woman so beautiful, she could be a model. When he rides toward her, she turns to the camera with this expression of joy and awe. "Like she just saw a unicorn," he says. Maxfield wants to freeze-frame her face, and others like it, and hang those images up around his house.

There's something in those faces that Maxfield can't seem to get enough of. Sometimes they seem to be talking to him, even though their mouths are closed. They're saying just one word, one very simple word, and they're saying it over and over. It's yes. "Yes, yes, yes, yes," he hears. "Yes to what you are doing. Keep it up."

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