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The Pool Game That Never Ended

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The first thing I noticed was the sound. That little electronic click-clack, the soft pop of digital balls scattering across a green felt screen. Daniel made it dozens of times a night, thumbs moving in the blue light of the couch, his face lit up like a kid.

"It's just pool," he said, when I finally asked. "Marcus and I got into it at work. We've got like a forty-game streak going."

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