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THE PEP TALK

“If there’s one thing I loathe,” the coach said, “it’s a quitter.”

He had good reason to reprimand us at half-time, because the scoreboard revealed that we were losing, 45-20. Our lackluster performance indicated to him that we had forgotten the rudimentary aspects of basketball. His caustic remarks fired us up, however, and we dashed out, determined to wrest control of the game from our rivals.