It’s eight in the morning, first of October, the day before I turn fifty-three, and I am psyching myself up to return to the boxing gym for the first time since the pandemic. Five years ago I started training at a gym in Evanston to research for a piece I wanted to write—have wanted to write, have in a sense been writing, for twenty years—about my pater…
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