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We don't always want what we want

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Addison Del Mastro
Oct 03, 2022
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When I was a little kid, my dad told me this story, which I think was supposed to be amusing, but I found it kind of creepy, and I still remember it. This is my telling of it:

A real pool shark who absolutely loves winning a game of billiards dies and goes to heaven, and heaven, it turns out, is a pool hall. He picks up his cue and gets playing. First ga…

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