Their reminiscing produced a soft, drawn out "Ooh" from her lips, as their thoughts and kind words help to sweeten the blow... as doubts begin to surface that she hasn't done enough with her life yet, to make a difference.
Elsewhere in Friday's draw, Italy got a comparatively soft draw, facing Paraguay, Slovakia and New Zealand in its group.
But despite his injury, he has now succeeded in capitalizing on his soft draw and reaching his first French Open semifinal.
Despite his physical limitations and lack of clay-court pedigree, he has succeeded in capitalizing on his soft draw and reaching his first French Open semifinal.
In January, she made the final of the Australian Open, but few gave her much of a chance; she had benefitted from an unusually soft draw.
There he took a 4-iron and smoked a soft draw into the front third of the green that pitched forward and rolled some 35 feet toward the hole, stopping about two and a half feet away.
Murray, who looked doomed to squander a terrific draw when he tore a tendon in his ankle in the third round, is now back in the final eight, where he will be a prohibitive favorite to reach his first French Open semifinal (Chela is 31 and has had a soft draw of his own).
His game is ideally suited to Augusta, a high soft draw and as we've all seen he's got every shot in the bag.
"It was during a studio visit with another artist, Lois Dodd, and I remember looking up, and hung fairly high on the wall was a very quiet, very soft, dark drawing.
Listening to her talk - her soft voice drawing out the Celtic lilt you'll hear in certain Canadian accents, her pretty features framed by a haze of silvery curls - you might almost believe her.
