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Beauty of third place in eye of beholder
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By their nature, expectations never track a faithful course, always leaving room for the unexpected result, bringing an athlete to his knees or sending him leaping skyward in joy. And so it was here Saturday, with the Petaluma boys sitting disconsolately on rocks, all seven staring unemotionally at a pond, their dream dashed ... while the Maria Carrillo girls celebrated with a mud fight
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