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Toronto, 2019.07.02

Our son plays tennis, and his club has just asked him to join a new youth program that will see him get a lot of exposure this summer. He'll have more access to the courts, but he'll also effectively have a volunteer job helping the club with their tournaments and all the other stuff that the adult members do. This first engagement will last all summer.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov