🌱 How a Fair Oaks boxing gym helped one professor fight back
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How a Fair Oaks boxing gym helped one professor fight back
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Today's riddle: When is a car not a car? 🤔 (Answer below!)
Saturday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., with a high of 98 and low of 73 degrees.
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Sunday: An afternoon t-storm or two, temps: high: 94, low: 71.
Monday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 85 and low of 70 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Boxing in metaphors (fairfaxtimes.com) — A George Mason University English professor traces how boxing at a UFC gym in Fair Oaks helped her channel grief over her mother’s cancer into strength and focus. Now, at 52, she’s training for a charity bout that uses boxing as a powerful metaphor for the fight against cancer.
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