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'There's Mommy, riding a bike'
Thirty-seven years after this race started, Grace Ramos stood, holding a video camera, at what her mother called "the finish line." In Ecuador, men told a teenage Enma Ramos in the 1960s, girls couldn't ride bicycles: they'd lose their virginity. So Ramos didn't – until, one day at 16, she waited until her brother left the house, then hustled his bike onto the street. (29/05) More
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