"I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs."

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Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.

— Garrison Keillor