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Introduction
"It took the fewest of words to set them off. Sometimes nothing more than the faintest trace of a smirk. He was also capable of making things up, conjuring up on an affront out of thin air. That's what they would all realize afterward. He would seize on apparently meaningless cracks or gestures and plunge them deep into his heart until they glowed radioactively, the nuclear fuel rods of his great fire. Only much later would the public come to understand just how incapable he was of letting go of even the tiniest details.
Many observers mistakenly thought that these affronts, were laughable things of Michael's own manufacture, little devices to spur his competitive juices and that he would jokingly toss them aside when he was done with them after he had wrung another sweaty victory from the evening, but he could not let them go any more than he could shed his right arm.