Billy Phelan's Greatest Game

One interpretation of Sam’s childhood is that he was simply waiting for it to end. That’s how he thought about it, more or less: that he was holding his breath until other people grew up so he could talk to them. “A lot of childhood just never made sense to me,” he said. “If you don’t find it magical to think about Santa Claus then it’s just fuckin

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The story that isn’t Mark Nechtr’s by Mark Nechtr concerns a young competitive archer, named Dave, and his live-in lover, named L____. Dave, who is not nearly so healthy as Mark, believes that the only things that give his life meaning and direction are his competitive archery and his lover, L____, who is a great deal more attractive and sympatheti

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all these Wall Street companies Sam had never heard of came to the job fair that year inside the MIT gym. And he became just a little curious about them. Even a few months earlier his curiosity would have surprised him. He’d never had the slightest interest in money. He neither knew nor cared about finance. Apart from a firmly held idea that he sho

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