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During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. It__ a kind of self-hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well as from your rival.
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During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. It__ a kind of self-hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well as from your rival.

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