You did not mean to start counting. Six games in, you noticed the same five kids start every week, the same five come off late, the same five stay on after the score is settled. Yours is not among them. You started writing down minutes after the third game because you did not trust your memory. The handwriting in your phone notes is small and frustrated.

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