Ever let your kids win?

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loll…when the kids were small..back then..our house was the neighborhood playground. All the kids would congregate behind our house and we would either be playing, baseball, football, or basketball, depending on the season of the year. occasionally, i would play them all in basketball…would never let them win, but…that got bigger! loll..then, they would never let me win!!!

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