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Few athletes in recent memory have had the perception of them altered by their retirement more than Roy Halladay. He’s gone from stoic, hardworking, all-focus pitching machine to cool-dad goofball nearly overnight, thanks mainly to Twitter. All of us — seriously, every single person reading this — felt a tinge of happiness and a bigger tinge of jealously when Roy Halladay went to the zoo with Zoo with Roy. And it’s okay to feel that jealousy. It really is. It’s natural. But you can also do something about it.

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