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The club accepted her, Gil told me the following week. That was my father’s way: to erase the line in history beyond which everything seems stuffy and arcane. I expect some spark of recognition in his eyes, but find none. Two weeks later, when I returned from school, the hoop and backboard in our driveway had been taken down and given to a local charity.