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up. But when Lloyd blew hard into the

whistle, only to have it emit wonderful

silence, the smirking of many on the

team told the coaches what we had done.

Our head coach handed Lloyd his own

whistle, so we wouldn’t miss a beat, and

the next day the coaches ceremoniously,

with smirks of their own, presented

Lloyd with a whole box of whistles “in

case he wore out another one”.

Now, wi t h homecomin g

approaching, I looked back at my

yearbook and see our football team with

state playoff medals hanging around our

necks. We went further than any team

from our school had in years. I realized

a large part was due to the fact that no

team could outlast us. I also knew much

of that was thanks to a little man with a

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