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...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

Love, In The Universal Sense, Is Unconditional Acceptance. In The Individual Sense, The One-on-one Sense, Try This: We Can Say We Love Each Other If My Life Is Better Because You're In It And Your Life Is Better Because I'm In It. The Intensity Of The Love Is Weighted By How Much Better.

No Amount Of Effort Could Have Stopped That, Because Our Points Of View - The Way We Perceive Things - Are Inextricably Linked To Our Beliefs, ... ,our Beliefs Color What We See.

You Put Yourself Out There In The Truest Way You Can And Hope Others Do The Same. You'll Connect Or You Won't, But You Did What You Could.

A Sport Has Its Own Built-in Integrity, Doesn't Need An Artificial One. Athletics Carries Its Own Set Of Truths, And Those Truths Are Diminished And Manipulated By People With Agendas.