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[QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2815057, member: 6911"]
I read the article.  She was a 21 year-old kid, equivalent to a junior in college, who was in a strange country for the first time and trying to understand her surroundings.  As a guy who was a Peace Corps volunteer in Asia when I was a little older than she was, I completely understand.  It's a real struggle with language, with culture, with trying to live in surroundings that are totally unknown to you.  Her comments are completely understandable.

But now she is- what?- 27 years old.  A much more mature young woman, not a kid.  And she has grasped a lot of the elements of her industry and its finances.  She is nearing the downside of her athletic career, and she is rationally considering money, wear-and-tear on her body, the danger of career-ending injury.  She gets it.  And let's be clear that this athlete, the leading scorer in a league that features sixteen UConn alumnae, is giving voice to what many others are contending
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