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There is not nearly enough space here to list all the entertaining characters I’ve met down at the Air Canada Centre; but I would like to make special mention of John Wilczynski and Sean Davis for being such great guys to watch games with and to spin the yarn with on the golf course.
In closing, I will leave you with words written by a man named David Lowe around the same time the Leafs were going into the tank in early 2012. They were forwarded on to me by a relative and I pass them on here simply because they are perhaps the most fitting of any saying or metaphor I’ve seen: “Being a Leafs fan is the worst relationship I have ever been in.”
It can’t be that bad, can it?
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Sacred Bonds
On the evening of December 9, 2010, a man named Angus Ronalds pushed his son, Riley, through the concourse of the Air Canada Centre in a wheelchair. Earlier that year he had buried his wife, the mother of their two young children, after she died from a rare form of cancer. Within weeks, Riley, his oldest child, was stricken with the same type of cancer, which has a tendency to attack much more aggressively in successive generations.