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On the Beach (Madeira)

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Abstract:
I don’t remember now how I found him. But somehow I did. The chess champion of Funchal, Madeira. It was a bustling little city of bougainvillea and palm trees and the birthplace of Christopher Columbus’ wife. By stubborn questioning, I somehow unearthed a modest, poorly lit room that served as the local chess club and discovered the unassuming local champ, Ricardo. I had just arrived on a banana boat from Lisbon on a two week escape from family life. I was looking forward to some of the innocent pleasures of a renewed bachelorhood.

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Levitin, Alexis, "On the Beach (Madeira)" (2022). Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-North American Letters and Studies. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/0des-5x77

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