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After becoming sober, I bounced around a bit professional, eventually landing in Nashville, TN in 2018 to develop a new junior tennis academy. It was a bold move.
Being new in town and knowing all of two people, I did what all middle-aged single people do. I went to the app store on my iPhone and downloaded a dating site.
Fortunately for me, a lovely spirited woman from Iowa just happened to have relocated to Nashville about the same time I did and she downloaded the same app. And as our profiles appeared to one another, we both swiped right, resulting in a dinner date.
On one of our first dates, she came over to watch the final of the US Open. Turned out, she didn’t know the first thing about tennis, had no idea who Roger Federer or Serena Williams was. Well, she does now.
On another of our early dates, I took her to Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville to see Phish perform. During one of their longer spacier jams, she leaned over and asked me if I lost a lot of sleep wondering why I was single if I took my dates to hear such music.
And we…
