Basketball Taught Me How to Live
On the impermanence of youth, health, and my crappy ankle
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11 min readJul 2, 2019
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It happened again one night when my fiancée and I were walking home from work. One second we were side by side, mid-conversation about our days, and suddenly she was alone in the darkness. I dropped abruptly, as though I’d been hit by a sniper. Andrea took a few steps before noticing I was on the ground behind…