And as for my game?

While its really just hitting its stride, Ive already started planning out the indoor season.

Enter the South Carolina Lowcountry.

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Photo: Courtesy of Hilton Head Island / Bluffton Chamber of Commerce

I know, I know: What happened?

Absolutely nothingwe never saw the gator again.

But theres also an amazing kind of scavenger-hunt game that kept ours busy.

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Photo: Courtesy of Montage Palmetto Bluff

Who, truly, should be knighted, or given a kind of American-style Legion dhonneur, or something.

But we werent being housed elsewhere on the island.

Unsuprisingly, everybody slept very well that night.

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Photo: Courtesy of Montage Palmetto Bluff

Smith, en route to winning Wimbledon in 1972.

Ill spare you a retelling of what happened out on the court with Smith.

I mean, suremy kids still think of him now as the shoe guy.

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Smith, en route to winning Wimbledon in 1972.

But one day theyll understand?