Purrfect Game. Purrfect Bouquet. Purrfect Home

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Sometimes Marge wondered what it would be like to play with a different partner than her husband Tex. Not that Tex was a bad tennis player, per se, but it could hardly be said that he was a good one either. Even though Tex never failed to mention that he was trained by the great Pete Sampras himself, and had acquired a degree from the highly respected Ross School Tennis Academy, this enviable pedigree didn’t show in his game, which was fair to middling at best.

The couple were enjoying the annual tennis extravaganza organized by Michele Droba, prominent socialite and fellow member of the Riviera Country Club. As Michele saw it, this was simply a fun week spent amongst friends and tennis fans, and the Pooles had been welcome guests for going on fifteen years now. At the moment they were playing a doubles game against Vena and Glenn Aleman, the veterinarian and her bookseller husband. And it had to be said that in spite of Tex’s self-proclaimed tennis prowess, Vena and Glenn were winning.

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