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Today's talk comes from Grant Fortray.

I want to show you, most of you have heard me say once or twice my story,

that I grew up playing tennis and I want to show you a photo of me at a young age,

because I started playing tennis when I was two years old, which is pretty crazy.

I learned recently that my wife didn't start walking until she was almost two years old,

but then she graduated from Georgia Tech, so it all came out in the wash.

But check this photo out right here.

At the risk of all of my, what you think about me, this is me,

and I don't know how old I was there.

My nickname at that time was Country Club, if you can imagine that, isn't that spectacular?

But my journey started at, when I was two years old, I started playing tennis,

and I would literally go to a lesson every single day.

I would cry if I didn't get to go to a lesson.

It was just what I loved to do.

My parents didn't play tennis.

I don't know why I loved playing tennis.

It just was what I did.

And my whole life was that.

So most of my life, I spent sacrificing for this dream to play tennis.

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