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Play poker, or else

By DJ Gallo
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

That's it. I fold. I'm an outcast. And it snuck up on me so quickly. A year-and-a-half ago, I was still pretty cool -- in my early 20s, stylish and up on pop culture . . . but able to stop just short of that line that separates 'cool' from 'annoying hipster.' Yet today, I'm a social leper. Why? Because I'm the only male in America who doesn't play poker. So I'm going to start. I have to start. I don't have a choice. It's either submit to the poker craze or be devoured and spit out, left to ...

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