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“Relax your posture,” a text tells me, and I lean against a railing to fiddle with my phone.

He fiddled with the ring a bit to ready it, then prepared himself to move quickly, knowing he was going to need the element of surprise if he had any hope of saving the boy...princess...whatever.

With two games in four days — the lineup decided for the second because it’s a continuation of a match that was delayed in March — Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer had little room to fiddle with lineups.

Mom was back, fiddling with the phone like she was nervous.

Gaunt and weakened by cancer at 42, his father reached for the buttons on Kerr’s shirt, fiddled with them and said something about getting ready to catch the plane to their cabin in the woods.