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I was 3 for 10

I’ve done almost every sport I can think of for almost as long as I can recall. So I’ve had a lot of coaches. And my best coach was my eighth grade math teacher, Mrs. Lane. 

She scared me witless. She scared everyone witless. She wasn’t mean. She didn’t yell. But you knew that she knew everything. Especially about you.

She wore a different knockoff Chanel suit to school every day and had high-fashion oversized black-framed glasses. She spoke in the snappy cadence of an actress in a 1940s

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