When I was living with my aunt in Stinson Beach, I became infatuated with this man that I met online who had graduated from MIT and was now working in tech in Silicon Valley. I was really interested in what his parents had done when he was growing up that contributed towards him being able to attend MIT for computer science, and one of the things that he mentioned was that he had grown up playing chess. I didn’t know the first thing about chess but I downloaded an app so we could play chess together, hoping I could learn by playing, but he would mate me in three moves, so the chess didn’t workout — neither did he and .
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