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The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 19 “I don’t remember my wins.” Years ago, a 12-year-old tennis player from Grand Island, NY, just outside of Buffalo, came to town to play in a tennis tournament in my...
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Chapter 18 from The Spotted Ball, A True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 “Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief” At this point, it would be unfair to my dear readers if I did not introduce a college...
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Chapter 17 from The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 “2319 NW 2nd Street, Miami, Florida 33125” To most of us, the address of 2319 NW 2nd Street, Miami, Florida 33125 has little, if any, meaning. However, if one...
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Chapter 16 from The Spotted Ball, A True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 “Scratching the ground like a mole” To speak of the State-sponsored “scratch off” tickets, we should go back to the time they were first introduced into the...
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Chapter 15 from The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 “Humans don’t greet you. Machines do” As mentioned in an earlier chapter, I had no experience with slot machines at the Hotel Embajador Casino since, at that...
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The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 13 There is no Chapter 13 here, dear readers, just as there is no 13th floor in many high-rise commercial and residential buildings. Have you ever received a document...
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The Spotted Ball, A True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 12 “Get on the 15!!” So as not to abandon the observant little girl who noticed the two-car phenomenon in the previous chapter, we begin by addressing the...
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The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 11 “Mommy, Mommy! Look!” My readers may ask, and rightfully so, Is a 35:1 odds a fair return on one’s “investment”? Well, actually no. I answer in the negative since...
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The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 10 Geld ohne Arbeit—- German: Money without Work The whole concept of a bet, a gamble, is to gain without work. In the German language, translated, we also have...
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Interlude from “The Spotted Ball” a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 A few of my readers gave me some feedback, or more accurately blowback, from some of the recent chapters. One reader asked why I would even have taken my...
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