I’m sorry for your loss.
The condolences from my buddy Eric in Indiana would’ve meant a lot more if he hadn’t been laughing.
Villanova hadn’t even victoriously cut down the nets after Monday’s college basketball championship game before Eric called to exult in the misery of UNC basketball fans worldwide.
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People deal with heart-rending loss in different ways. Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross put forth the theory that there are five stages of dealing with grief. Sports fans are familiar with those five and probably some she didn’t think of.
The first stage, she wrote, is denial – a conscious or unconscious refusal to accept reality.