Are you a fanatic or what?

I recently attended a memorial service for a longtime acquaintance who was renowned as one of those “if you cut him, he’d bleed University of Tennessee orange” enthusiasts. I came away self-conscious, because — while I like countless things in this big, beautiful world — I was “curbing my enthusiasm” even before Larry David launched his HBO series. Sure, my school-age self was more...

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