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Agony and Ecstasy on the Soccer Field
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Will Matsuda When Georgia Cloepfil began writing what would become The Striker and the Clock, she started by jotting down thoughts between practices. Cloepfil, who had been playing soccer seriously since she was a …