"They mow lawns, and now I can buy ETFs for them with their lawn-mowing money without paying a commission, " he says.

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The bottom line is: without consistent and continued effort, the lawn will never sprout, it can die or it can get overgrown with weeds.

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The team will now be without the top two players in Britain, as Alex Bogdanovic has also decided not to participate, having had his Lawn Tennis Association funding cut and been refused a wildcard into Wimbledon despite meeting the LTA criteria.

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