re: #134 austin_blue

From the NYT “Reporter’s Notebook” today. If you don’t have a catch in your throat at the end of this, your last name is probably Trump:

By JOHN BRANCHOCT. 11, 2017

NOVATO, Calif. — I was on the sideline of a soccer field two Saturdays ago, watching my 12-year-old daughter and her Novato teammates. I don’t remember much about that game, but Novato won, and one of the goals was scored by the smallest girl on the team, a quick and feisty forward who wears a long ponytail and jersey No. 8. We whooped and cheered her name. I found out later that her parents weren’t there that afternoon. They were in Las Vegas for a getaway weekend.

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Sniff. Got something in my eye.