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Tennis Love on Christmas Day

Amy Eddings Posted on

Tuesday, December 25, 2012 at 9:30AM

Merry Christmas, my online friends and tennis family. May your stockings be stuffed with cans of new tennis balls and your hearts with gratitude for this life, in all its abundance.

"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what was that?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved
On the earth."

-- with apologies to Raymond Carver, whose poem, "Poem Fragment," I'm quoting from memory.

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