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Which, again, is sports.

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Its still about football, sure.

It feels so charming at first.

Then you get to watch him with Paxson and her husband Jon DeCles, also an author.

There are walls full of framed book covers and artwork featuring mythical beings.

RJs bedroom, meanwhile, has a mini-fridge and a lot of football stuff.

In that sense, RJs background fits right in.

If we only had perfect people writing, Paxon says, there would be no one left to write.

What we should be doing is honoring what people manage to achieve despite their flaws.

Paxsons language falls depressingly short of a firm denunciation.