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Paddlehands Pt. I

My rivalry with the greatest ping-pong player in Bayonne, and possibly American, history.

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Brian Gabriel Canever
Feb 20, 2024
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brown and orange wooden table tennis racket
Photo by Lennart Schneider.

Buy the e-book of the full Paddlehands saga for $5 or listen to the audiobook on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube. If you’d like a PDF or other version, write me.

It was well past midnight the first time my wife caught me on the living room sofa watching YouTube videos of Chinese people playing ping-pong. “What in the world are you doing?” she asked as she rounded the corner in her pajamas, squinting at the blue light emanating from the laptop screen.

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