Paddlehands Pt. III
A chronicle of the 2007 BHS Student-Teacher Table Tennis Championship.
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The walk home from school was miserable. No matter how hard we tried, Mickey, Jeremy, and I couldn’t fathom what Ms. DeMaria had done. Partnering with Eddy Fink was a violation. Of what? We couldn’t be sure. But the purity of the sport she’d taught us to love was a fiction. Ping-pong was not about friendly competition or the coming together of different cultures and worldviews. We had been naive to believe it was anything other than what Fink understood it to be: a fight to the death, the only objective being that it be your opponent’s blood, not yours, spilling onto the polished hardwood by day’s end.
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