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“I’m not a writer… go easy on me.”
The first words I uttered to Tom Gerbasi via email upon filing my first story for UFC.com in my early days at UFC. Thirty minutes or an hour passed. Then a response in my inbox:
“Go easy on WHAT? Of course you’re a writer.”
If you ever had the pleasure of meeting Gerbasi in person or speaking to him on the phone, you’re probably reading that response in the rumbling but warm Staten Island accent. A defining characteristic, and one that always instantly made me homesick.