2008 March 16 « Marching Post

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Can’t Play Forever

Posted on 16 March 2008 by Andrew

This past semester, I made a tough decision: I decided to stop playing football. There are many reasons why, but the long and the short of it was that I had just out-grown it. The saying comes to mind, “You can’t play forever.” So I decided to return to just being a regular, old Cadet, [...]

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