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Blind Brook High School senior Zoey Possick (left) exclaims “we need you on our tennis team” to Dejahnae “Dee Dee” Ashman as they chat on the Harkness Park tennis courts. The two have gotten to know each other over the last 18 months and have become friends.

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Respectfully confined to just one of the four nets, seven girls played on the Harkness Park tennis courts adjacent to Blind Brook High School on May 1, a few minutes after school got out on early dismissal that Wednesday. Between the light exercises, water breaks and a variety of spur-of-the-moment games, they’d get preoccupied by conversation about hobbies, passions and general life.

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