In a way, theirs is a love story in reverse: they set off in mistrust, move to indifference, slide into a marriage of convenience, begin to notice and value one another, and finally ascend to a state of ineradicable need.

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He went on to ask the crowd to "pray to God so that he can bless me", before calling on the world to set off on a path of love and fraternity.

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In that 2003 U.S. Open, he was down two sets to love and fought off a match point in a five set semifinal against David Nalbandian.

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