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by Rita Bullwinkel

You can’t train for a sport unless you believe you have control over your own destiny. The point of training is to change the outcome of the future. You train to change something you otherwise would have lost.

It is amazing the power that a strange hat will give you.

In Dallas, her village of life, and then death, everyone she knew, including her family, including her hand-clapping girl-mates of yore, and including the man with whom she will eventually own a chain of weight-loss-marketed gyms, the lot of them believed in God in the way that one checks the weather forecast.