MYSTORY: Listen to a Heartbreaking City Finals Story
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Speaker:This month, our featured story comes from Melissa.
Speaker:It's a heartbreaker with a lesson to be learned.
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Speaker:After many years, my nowadays is tennis partner Mike and I made it to the City Finals.
Speaker:It was a cold winter day in the mid-30s.
Speaker:As Mike and I approached the tennis court, we could see our opponents, and we were pleasantly
Speaker:surprised because we had actually beaten them before.
Speaker:So we were very excited to play them again.
Speaker:We barely lost the first set, and we were down in the second set.
Speaker:But we got our game on.
Speaker:I remember seeing Mike's fluffy white hair blowing in the wind, and I thought, "This
Speaker:is a one-singular lifetime chance, so let's go for it."
Speaker:We were down 5-4, and came back and tied the game 5-5.
Speaker:I remember high-fiving Mike as I walk across the court, but we both fell to switch our
Speaker:score.
Speaker:He was our opponent, and he won his serve.
Speaker:And the next day I knew our opponents were running across the court saying, "We won, we won!"
Speaker:And my friend, my dear friend, Mike shook their hands, said, "Good job!"
Speaker:And I'm like, "What?
Speaker:What the heck?"
Speaker:I said, "We tied them at 5-5, but they walked off the court.
Speaker:I could hear my husband in the background through the blistering wind yelling, "No!"
Speaker:He had watched the entire match in the cold, and he's an A player, and those A players are
Speaker:very competitive, and he could see everything happening from afar.
Speaker:Unfortunately, once you walk off the court, that's it.
Speaker:Our opponents didn't just walk off.
Speaker:They sprinted off.
Speaker:My dear friend, Mike, and I never made it again to a city final.
Speaker:But one day, I would love to make it again in honor of him.
Speaker:He will be watching me from heaven, and I will change this court.
Speaker:Thank you for watching.
Speaker:Bye.
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