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    Todd Lazarski’s Make the Road by Walking: Book 2, Part 2

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    As is so often the case with former high school acquaintances at a glance, I remember the nickname and not the real one. But the high cheek bones and long, perpetually dumb-looking face immediately take me back to the playground, to the flying elbows and garbage low post moves of [...]

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