Aaron has been calling for fouls that don't exist on a Sunday morning court for eleven years now. Every airball is somebody bumping his elbow. Every missed layup is the sun. I've watched this man argue a possession with a fourteen-year-old and lose on principle.
So when he told me Kate was coming to watch us play, I figured she'd last one game.
She didn't leave. She stood on the sideline, took one look at him bricking free throws, and said, loud enough for the whole court, "You've got to bend your knees, Aaron." And he did. First time in a decade anybody got him to change his form.
That's the thing I love about them. Aaron has spent his whole life certain he's already got it figured out. Kate is the one person he actually listens to, because she never tells him he's wrong. She just quietly makes him better, and lets him think it was his idea.
You two play the long game together, and you play it honest. That's rarer than a clean jump shot on a Sunday.
To Aaron and Kate. May she keep fixing your form, and may you always let her.
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