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Coming to you on a Tuesday morning here.

Just kind of settling in back from my 4th of July holiday vacation, the trip I take once a year, back to the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, to connect with a ton of my friends.

Most of them I've known my entire life. We've

been playing in the Knopterni, which is essentially a homemade basketball tournament that we

created when we were just small kids. And this has been going on for 24 years. Next year will be

year 25. And now we're all obviously older, you know, shells of our

former selves, but it's basically now like conditioning with a basketball because even for me,

I could ball at one point in my life, but man, I am terrible now. And we all kind of are, but it's

fun. And it's always been about much more than basketball, even when we were all, you know,

in college, you know, playing sports and kind of at the peak of our careers or maybe just after college for some.

And it's about a lot more than just basketball. Most people, I said this in an Instagram post,

don't have more than one or two, you know, lifelong friends from their childhood. And I'm lucky

enough to have a couple of dozen. So it's pretty cool. And older I get, I realize how special it truly is to have that community and people and

a family is what we call it.

I actually have it tattooed on my body.

That's how much it does mean to me.

So pretty unique thing and that was my holiday weekend.

So it brought me to this post post which i wrote this in a blog

initially um a couple years back during the fourth of july holiday i had one night uh you know

when the tourney had wrapped up that i was free and this just kind of came to me in my mind and it

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