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Retired Reds beat writer John Fay's life story is a love story

Ask anyone about John Fay and they’ll tell you he loved the Cincinnati Reds and loved covering them for more than three decades for The Enquirer.

They’ll also tell you his greatest love had nothing to do with baseball or newspapers.

By the time he first set foot in the Reds’ press box in the 1980s, John already had found the kind of heart-thumping, life-changing, I-don’t-want-to-be-with-anyone-else kind of love that changes a person’s life forever.

Her name was Laura and she lived across the street from him on Cincinnati’s West Side, where they both grew up.