Playing for Keeps. (Frankly Speaking).

Publication: Curve

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COPYRIGHT 2002 Curve Magazine, Outspoken Enterprises, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 863-6538

For me, learning boxing was like discovering the fountain of youth. I've always been naturally athletic -- I was a national skateboarding champ at the age of 8, and later I was a shot-put gold-medallist in the Junior Olympics. But I never felt I'd found my true calling until I picked up a pair of boxing gloves.

My grandpa was a boxing manager. Tough guys with black eyes and broken noses would hang out at his house, eating whatever my grandma put on the table....

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