The Defending Goal (For Puck’s Sake #8)

The Defending Goal (For Puck’s Sake #8)

Author: Crea Reitan Listening Length: 7h 55m

Not only the net should be protected. Felton I’m a disappointment, a failure, a shit show. Every decision is wrong. None of my accomplishments are good enough. I don’t do anything right. This is what I’ve been told my entire life. For more than thirty years, no one knew. What the world sees is a lie. I do a good job...

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I could have gone home for the break this year. With ten days off, there was time. I’m not entirely sure why we didn’t plan for that, but it definitely worked out in my favor. There’s no way I’m going to be leaving Felton on his own. Especially with the guys on the team he’s closest to going home for Christmas.

Instead, my parents and brother planned to come here since it’s rare that I get this much time off during this part of the year. We don’t celebrate Christmas like Westerners. My family isn’t Christian or religious in any sense of the word. As with the majority of China, we practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian overview—which is widely known as the Chinese folk religion.