Mario befriends Eric Clipperton on the junior tour

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texture · ~late Unsubsidized Time, Mario "age eight"

When: "That late summer," in "the very last couple years of solar, Unsubsidized Time"; Mario is called eight.
What: Tottering with lens-cases and tripods at JOI's U.S.T.A.-auspiced junior-tennis documentary shoots, Mario is Clipperton's "only even remote friend on the jr. tour" — kind to the gun-toting boy everyone else non-recognizes. One JOI test-cartridge holds the only footage of Clipperton, a forward-listing Mario beside him "open very wide for a homodontic laugh."