"Hope doesn't get involved in the celebrations very often, " Wambach explained afterward, her right eye still showing some purple from the shiner she took in a game Saturday.

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He also believed that he could disguise his age, in this particular setting, by wearing a two-tone swimsuit with the right leg lime green, the left leg purple.

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One man in a purple polo shirt is partly-paralysed down his right side, a victim of post-traumatic stress.

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The fairways are bracketed with heather, and then with gorse, so that at the right time of year when everything is blooming, the course becomes a sea of green, purple and yellow that is compounded by the sea, the sand, and some of the most incredible sunsets anyplace.

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