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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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