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At This Table, We Remember.
On the Thursday before Memorial Day, Prim sets the strategy talk aside for a moment. This issue gathers the community around what the weekend asks of us:
how to acknowledge the day at your Thursday game without theater,
the women whose service is inseparable from the game they love,
and the wartime mahjong circles that held a generation together through the 1940s and into the VA hospital wards.
Strategy still gets its hour, in a quietly unconventional Crak the Card on the hand that cannot close, and the discipline of finishing the game with honor anyway.
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