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Memories Never Fade

No matter how many years would pass, every time I saw Vince he brought up the year my brother Don's AHS basketball team won the 1954 state title. After running though the basketball memories, we would move on to the tennis and golf stories and the year a putt on the 9th green at Pineview somehow twisted and turned and rolled into the cup 30 feet away!  

Late one night I got a call from Vince with an apology for calling so late.  He had just seen a movie and he thought one of the leading stars looked just like me.  "Has anyone ever told you that?"  (Quite a few.)  We always had to critique all Oscars and what should have won.  Vince was a literary buff and loved to share the plot to the latest book he was reading.  One day at Vintage Park he shared that the book mobile only brought romance novels, but he read them anyway.  I hurried down to the library and brought back Seabiscut and Unbroken, two that I knew he would love. 

Vince always had those inside stories to share, and I am fortunate to have gathered in a few memories along the way.  I know he will be missed as a truly genuine gentleman.

 

Posted by Mary VanDyke
Sunday April 3, 2016 at 11:56 am
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