Thank you for everything, Pooh

Derrick Rose isn’t as great as Michael Jordan, but he might be as influential and arguably more important to Chicago when it comes to basketball.Elise Amendola/AP

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More than anything else Derrick Rose has been — to me and to millions of others often too marginalized to understand — he has been a reflection. Not of his career or his life but of life. Of me. Of so many others. Of us.

Not specifically of what we see when we look in a mirror but more of the reflection the world interprets when one of those like us rises, shines and ends. Not in death but in calling. When the vessel we were placed on this earth to serve concludes. When the first circle closes. When purpose begins.

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