The 1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was played from May to September, 1997. Kerry, the most successful team in Gaelic football history, ended an eleven-year dry spell with a three-point victory over Mayo. This year also marked Cavan's first Ulster title in a number of decades.
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“Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn’t mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn’t mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.”
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