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Added May 18, 2015
I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside.
Book
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death
Colson Whitehead
Published
2014
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Older
You were at the hospital when I was born. There must've been something about three generations being in one room that made history seem tangible. So easy to touch. So easy to hold.
Newer
You say it's up to me to do the talking. You lean forward, place a box of tissues in front of me, and your leather chair groans like a living thing. Like the cow it used to be before somebody killed it and turned it into a chair in a shrink's office in a loony bin.