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It’s really just a piece of iron bolted to a hunk of plywood.
My old basketball goal is nothing fancy, mind you. It’s the wrong color, for crying out loud. -
But, boy, how it is filled with history.
And unfortunately, its history is also its future.
Remember Hurricane Gloria? For us that may have been just a cloudy, breezy morning. In at my folks’ house on Long Island, old Gloria was as windy and as pushy as any bossy woman.
She took with her the pine tree that was home to my basketball backboard, rim and net.
And never mind that I hadn’t played in that back yard for a couple of years ever since I discovered old people get slower and can’t jump‘d high as 18-year-olds, and that basketball is a game where it is
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