The Correlation Between Softball And Basketball

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I remember when I played basketball the year before and how fun it was, but I was still deciding whether I wanted to play or not that year. I was going to play and then my dad told me to think if it was going to mess with softball. I just didn’t want to do both, Softball and basketball because it was between those and also school work it's just too much work. I still like to play basketball but I am just too busy. My mom’s words exactly were “ Whatever you think you can do I don’t care just hurry up and make a decision”. I do know that my dad wanted me to quit though. He was always saying “ I just don’t want you to be too busy”. When I did make my decision it wasn’t my mom or dad’s words that made me choose it was I heard some people were

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