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Shavin: The unexpected joy of midlife sports (or hey, I don’t hate this!)

Dana Shavin / Contributed photo
Dana Shavin / Contributed photo

About three months ago, my husband came in from golfing and told me about a new sport that’s all the rage.

“It’s called pickleball,” he said.

“I hate it,” I said.

“You know about it already?”

“No,” I said, “I just can’t trust a sport with the word pickle in it.”