Some Ping-Pong players are born great, some Ping-Pong players achieve greatness, and some Ping-Pong players have greatness thrust upon them. If you asked Gil Witherspoon, he’d tell you that he was all three. No one had asked, but it certainly hadn’t stopped him from telling the other attendees of the Golden Sunrise Retirement Community Ping Pong Tournament multiple times. They already knew that he’d won six tournaments in a row, and he’d loudly bragged that tonight he’d tie the record of seven in a row, and that not one but two reporters from The Golden Sunrise Weekly Journal were there to immortalize it. Print it in the paper now, and he’d call a trophy shop and have it etched in gold later. Maybe Molly Olsen would do it for...

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