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Four: Love in the Time of CoronaVirus

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"Dear Bobby"

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Pink

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The girl's face is flushed.  Her cheeks are stained with tears and her eyes pink with hurt and maybe embarrassment. As my eyes caught hers for a moment we connected.  I immediately wanted to cry. I turned away, reaching for my phone to type. If I looked any longer I would be in tears to match hers.  Had she not listened? Was she a disappointment?  Her strong and well-defined pre-teen body seems to wither under her frail emotional state.   Her coach is non-plussed- paying attention to another gymnast on a nearby beam. He is the young coach who always has a serious look on his face (and who Lloyd and I agree looks like John Mayer).  I hear him call her: "Kristin" She turns cautiously his way.  What he says I cannot hear though she seems to respect his words and immediately moves into motion despite his unaffected face showing no sympathy to her pink face. Where does sympathy lie?  I think on a conversation my colleagues and I had recently- "the mill...
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