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Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

Ed Ayres

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Ed Ayres
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Athletics Competitor
Environmentalist
Journalist
Sculptor
Writer
Destruction
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Sports
Mimics
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Eliminates
War
Fatal
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Redemption
May
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