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An affair to remember

It’s amazing how a piece of wood can become such an important part of your life… How every time you wield it in your hand it’s like your very life depends on it… How when it rains you hold it close to your chest, shielding it from every drop… How you seem to share a heartbeat… (How can I piece of wood have a heartbeat, you ask? I’m sure one day you’ll find an ‘object’ that does). How a small crack in the wood causes a great deal of pain in your heart and leads to even more anxiety when it is being repaired… In short, how you care for it, as if the “piece of wood” were your own flesh and blood. That perfectly describes my relationship with my RNS Larsons ‘Omega’ bat; one that began in the summer of 2008 and was forced to a close a few weeks ago. Sometimes you know right away that there is a connection; and when I picked up that bat, I knew right away that it was made for me! It weighed 1099gms, had a rather thin blade (compared to the ones you see now), but was beautifully