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Super Mario!
In college, I signed up for a Fencing class. On the first night, I met the instructor. He looked like Luigi from Super Mario Brothers-Short, pear-shaped, mustacioed, and balding, with an Italian accent. He did not appear very impressive.
Then we watched him demonstrate with one of his senior students, who was trying to playfully goad him into "giving it everything". He did.
Turns out that, although this guy worked at the mearby AFB as an engineer, he had been on the Italian Olympic Team in the '60s, and had won a Bronze medal at the '64 games, and a Gold at the International games in '62. I have never seen anyone. at any age, who moved faster, and with more apparent ease, than that man.
I took Fencing for many years with him, until I graduated. If someone had ever told me that I'd had one thousandth of his talent, I would have been honored.
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September 6, 2004, 11:43 PM
