The Covid years. My life is diminished since then. I lost my brother. My children lost some social expression, and we are still recovering from that.
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That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
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Professionally, when I lost my first Wimbledon final. I am also disappointed I didn’t learn Spanish when I lived there.
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Being able to buy my parents a house.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
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That there are more important things than being right.
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