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For Delic, success hasn't come easy

By Bonnie DeSimone
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, March 26, 2007

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Amer Delic's improbable odyssey has hinged on a few serendipitous events. When he and his family left war-scarred Bosnia in 1996, they could have been sent anywhere in the United States. It was simply good fortune that they already had a cousin in Jacksonville, Fla., where there were plenty of tennis courts and sunshine year-round. "That's where you're going," they were told by their sponsoring agency, Lutheran Social Services. Delic, his parents and older sister, ...

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