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#212 Michael Jordan: The Life

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It took the fewest of words to set him off. Sometimes nothing more than the faintest trace of a smirk. He was also capable of making things up. Conjuring up on a front out of thin air.

That's what they would all realize afterwards. He would seize on apparently meaningless cracks or gestures and plunge them deep into his heart. Until they glowed radioactively. The nuclear fuel rods of his great fire. Only much later.

Would the public come to understand just how incapable he was? of letting go of even the tiniest details. Many observers mistakenly thought that these affronts were laughable things of Michael's own manufacturer. Little devices to spur his competitive juices. And that he would jokingly toss them aside when he was done with them.

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