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Jennifer L.W. Fink's avatar

Joanna, this is incredible! So many great points here -- about how (& how NOT) to be a sports parents, about teen boys as big tall babies, about our tendency, as moms, to see & pay attn to things our boys don't, at least not in the same way -- AND such great writing. I felt the rising tension. I deliberately slowed my reading as I was going through, b/c I didn't want my eyes to skip ahead and see what happened; I wanted to experience it with you. It's been (Jen calculates) 5-6? years since I attended a HS baseball game, but your brought it all back. In fact, you brought me back to a *specific game, in a specific place. That's how good your writing is. Brava!

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Katherine Andersen's avatar

Ugh, sports. Not sure the benefits always out weigh the costs

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