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  • Sammy Sosa wants to make amends.

Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

• And on that note: that the late Gabriel García Márquez used to say, “The day when shit becomes worth something, the poor will be born without asses”? —Steve Bogira

• About the trick that Jim Koch, cofounder of Boston Beer Company, uses to drink all day without getting drunk? —Julia Thiel