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“My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.”

Quote by Maurice Ashley

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Maurice Ashley was an author, born on March 6, 1966, and passed away on September 26, 1994. more

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