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remember the heavy gentle lift at my thighs and the ball curving back closer
and my passing the ball and beating the ball in flight over the horizontal net,
my feet not once touching the ground over fifty-odd feet, a cartoon, and
then there was chaff and crud in the air all over and both Antitoi and
I either flew or were blown pinwheeling for I swear it must have been
fifty feet to the fence one court over, the easternmost fence, we hit the
fence so hard we knocked it halfway down, and it stuck at degreesntitoi
detached a retina and had to wear those funky Jabbar retina goggles for
the rest of the summer, and the fence had two body-shaped indentations
like in cartoons where the guy's face makes a cast in the skillet that hit him,
two catcher's masks of fence, we both got deep quadrangular lines
impressed on our faces, torsos, legs' fronts, from the fence, my sister said
we looked like waffles, but neither of us got badly hurt, and no homes got
whacked--either the thing just ascended again for no reason right after,
they do that, obey no rule, follow no line, hop up and down at something
that might as well be will, or else it wasn't a real one. Antitoi's tennis
continued to improve after that, but mine didn't.