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John Davis: Mahj Meanderings
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Alice in Wonderland At a mah jongg tournament last year, I witnessed the player opposite me win four games in a row. Impossible? No. Improbable? Yes. I wanted to quit. I felt bad. I doubted myself. I was jealous. I had evil thoughts. But I smiled each time and congratulated her because I knew I'd talk about her at lunch. “Who is she?” my friends wanted to know, so I pointed her out. “Oh, yeah, her,” someone said, “she’s always so lucky.” We nodded our heads, each of us trying to recall a former moment of glory, preparing to top...