Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, ,,,,,, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment ,, in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result-eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly-in you.
After I had deflected his suggestion that I write a biography of him, I heard from him every now and then.
Questions about matching an NBA-best 72 wins were deflected and rejected.
