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Christine Hurley Deriso

me. r, to ut it even more succinctly, the Ethans are the
stars of the show. he ades are the e tras.
ut whatever. ho cares. I’ve got real roblems now. y
stomach clenches for the four-thousandth time of the day.

orry, tan tells me as his eyes follow Ethan’s tre
toward the free weights. here’s always that one straggler,
right
mm.
oc u when he’s done
I manage a smile. o roblem.

Ethan

hoa. etter ma e this uic .
I’d lanned to run on the greenway today, but as I got
in my orolla and headed for the ar , I heard thunder
rumbling. o I swung by egal ym instead. It closes at

si which, technically, is, li e, now but I figured it was
worth a shot to zi in. he worst that could ha en is being
turned away, right
I hate inconveniencing the staff, but I can’t miss a day
of training, even on our one day off from football ractice.
oach avis has been wor ing us hard all summer, but
now that the first game of the season is five days away,
he’s ic ed our wor outs into overdrive. Hours of side
lan s, ab crunches, lat ull-downs, and a thousand other

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