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May 21, 2007
"Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart." --Myla Kabat-Zinn
Young Golfer Playing Against The Odds
There is more than one reason that MacKinzie Kline has been generating headlines in the United States lately. The most obvious of them is that she suffers from an incurable heart defect that means she may not live to see her 30th birthday, and yet she has managed to work her way on to the women's professional golf circuit at the tender age of 15. That might be enough to grab anybody's attention. What makes this girl really compelling, though, to both newspaper columnists and the high-profile golfers who have taken her under their wing, is that she doesn't play the victim very well. In fact, for someone who needs a constant supply of oxygen and tires easily, she is both charming and determined.