Mario would never use recreational chemicals; the only Incandenza child not a pro athlete

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texture · YDAU present

When: YDAU present (framed 15 Oct urine-day).
What: In the drug-saturated E.T.A. economy Mario is set apart: he "wouldn't see the point of trying recreational chemicals even if he knew how" — he "just wouldn't get it." And should Hal make the Show, Mario will be the only Incandenza child not wildly successful as a professional athlete — a fact "no one who knows Mario could imagine... would ever even occur to him."