Sore Winners
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Excerpted from "Sore Winners" by John Powers Copyright 2004 by John Powers. Excerpted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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