Is There Something More to Socker?

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M, i haven't thought about this much, but, you know, my own relationship to this concept strikes me as peculiar. At no point in mylife did i ever think that that maybe i should be a professional athlete, right? Mlike, letme the sport i played the most, the team sport i playedthe most, was socker. I definitely had enough exposure to socker to discover in myself the aptitude that would lead him to be a professional socker player. Exactly. And yet, it's ther something about that that's hard for people to admit. It does feel diminishing in a way, that just acknowledging that you now, you weren't going to be

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