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My Blind Date With Victoria at the Presidents Cup

My Blind Date With Victoria at the Presidents Cup

I went to my first professional golf tournament. I left daydreaming about Australia.

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Normally we'd turn to J. Crew for everything to wear to a beachfront clambake:  Faded khaki shorts, a crisp white polo and a distressed leather belt we'd hope to have undone by some 10 in a sundress at the end of the night.  The classic clothier wouldn't normally be the place we'd turn…

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No matter how we spin it, for the most part we live our lives in small, familiar areas. We eat at the same restaurants, we hit the same bars and we pass the same people. Outside of some knockout that shops at the same bra store as Christina Hendricks or the guy…

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