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David Wright talks about illustrious career as final game approaches

As David Wright prepared to play the final game of his career this weekend, the Mets legend sat down with The Post’s Steve Serby for a Q&A:

Q: Tell me what you remember about your first day as a Met.
A: I’ll start the night before. We played — I believe — the Durham Bulls in Norfolk. And B.J. Upton was on the Durham team. We were having a great time just because two area kids playing in Triple-A in front of friends and family and things like that. Can’t remember what I did in the game, but then showered up, getting ready to go home, and all of a sudden [manager] John Stearns calls me in the office and says: “You’re going to the big leagues tomorrow.