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From: Rocky Mountain News
Date: 20020309
Author:Vincent Carroll

"Meanwhile, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing glove." - P.G. Wodehouse

If you have ever been trounced in tennis by an 80-year-old, you'll understand why I sometimes thought that my father-in-law might live forever. He could beat me at tennis and much else besides - although victory and defeat might not be the right terms to describe who was better at fixing faucets, soldering leaking pipes, hanging picket gates, putting down baseboard and mastering a hundred other chores.

He and I once rented a post digger and he walked me through the basics of digging a hole, ...

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