diff --git a/Libraries/Text/Text.js b/Libraries/Text/Text.js
index d983638ac..1727e8f26 100644
--- a/Libraries/Text/Text.js
+++ b/Libraries/Text/Text.js
@@ -18,27 +18,24 @@ const Touchable = require('Touchable');
 const UIManager = require('UIManager');
 
 const createReactNativeComponentClass = require('createReactNativeComponentClass');
-const mergeFast = require('mergeFast');
 const processColor = require('processColor');
 
 import type {PressEvent} from 'CoreEventTypes';
-import type {TextProps} from 'TextProps';
+import type {PressRetentionOffset, TextProps} from 'TextProps';
 
-type State = {
+type State = {|
+  touchable: {|
+    touchState: ?string,
+    responderID: ?number,
+  |},
   isHighlighted: boolean,
-};
-
-type RectOffset = {
-  top: number,
-  left: number,
-  right: number,
-  bottom: number,
-};
+|};
 
 const PRESS_RECT_OFFSET = {top: 20, left: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30};
 
 const viewConfig = {
-  validAttributes: mergeFast(ReactNativeViewAttributes.UIView, {
+  validAttributes: {
+    ...ReactNativeViewAttributes.UIView,
     isHighlighted: true,
     numberOfLines: true,
     ellipsizeMode: true,
@@ -49,7 +46,7 @@ const viewConfig = {
     adjustsFontSizeToFit: true,
     minimumFontScale: true,
     textBreakStrategy: true,
-  }),
+  },
   uiViewClassName: 'RCTText',
 };
 
@@ -67,9 +64,10 @@ class Text extends ReactNative.NativeComponent<TextProps, State> {
     ellipsizeMode: 'tail',
   };
 
-  state = mergeFast(Touchable.Mixin.touchableGetInitialState(), {
+  state = {
+    ...Touchable.Mixin.touchableGetInitialState(),
     isHighlighted: false,
-  });
+  };
 
   viewConfig = viewConfig;
 
@@ -143,7 +141,7 @@ class Text extends ReactNative.NativeComponent<TextProps, State> {
                 this.props.onLongPress && this.props.onLongPress(e);
               };
 
-              this.touchableGetPressRectOffset = function(): RectOffset {
+              this.touchableGetPressRectOffset = function(): PressRetentionOffset {
                 return this.props.pressRetentionOffset || PRESS_RECT_OFFSET;
               };
             }
@@ -230,9 +228,10 @@ var RCTVirtualText = RCTText;
 
 if (UIManager.RCTVirtualText) {
   RCTVirtualText = createReactNativeComponentClass('RCTVirtualText', () => ({
-    validAttributes: mergeFast(ReactNativeViewAttributes.UIView, {
+    validAttributes: {
+      ...ReactNativeViewAttributes.UIView,
       isHighlighted: true,
-    }),
+    },
     uiViewClassName: 'RCTVirtualText',
   }));
 }
diff --git a/Libraries/Text/TextProps.js b/Libraries/Text/TextProps.js
index 56229632a..474c8fef8 100644
--- a/Libraries/Text/TextProps.js
+++ b/Libraries/Text/TextProps.js
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ import type {Node} from 'react';
 import type {LayoutEvent, PressEvent} from 'CoreEventTypes';
 import type {DangerouslyImpreciseStyleProp} from 'StyleSheet';
 
-type PressRetentionOffset = {
+export type PressRetentionOffset = $ReadOnly<{|
   top: number,
   left: number,
   bottom: number,
   right: number,
-};
+|}>;
 
 /**
  * @see https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/text.html#reference
diff --git a/Libraries/Utilities/mergeFast.js b/Libraries/Utilities/mergeFast.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 42e357e5d..000000000
--- a/Libraries/Utilities/mergeFast.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- *
- * @flow
- */
-'use strict';
-
-/**
- * Faster version of `merge` that doesn't check its arguments and
- * also merges prototype inherited properties.
- *
- * @param {object} one Any non-null object.
- * @param {object} two Any non-null object.
- * @return {object} Merging of two objects, including prototype
- * inherited properties.
- */
-var mergeFast = function(one: Object, two: Object): Object {
-  var ret = {};
-  for (var keyOne in one) {
-    ret[keyOne] = one[keyOne];
-  }
-  for (var keyTwo in two) {
-    ret[keyTwo] = two[keyTwo];
-  }
-  return ret;
-};
-
-module.exports = mergeFast;