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...jacket, a shirt, a hat, a DVD of the team’s championship season, a baseball, and the last part—the best part—a letter. Lucchino, a man whom Cosgriff had never met, had himself survived cancer against the odds. Twice—in the mid-80’s with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, for which he received a bone marrow transplant, and in the 90’s for prostate cancer—Lucchino had experienced the twin hells of cancer and chemo...
Lucchino’s long letter to Cosgriff, in which he described his own battles and offered hope, put the Harvard junior in unpredictably happy straits. His invitation to watch a Red Sox game in the owner’s box, since fulfilled—“the only way to watch a game at Fenway,” Cosgriff said with a smile—made it great to think about life after cancer...
Cosgriff put down the letter and climbed into the shirts, the hat, and the jacket. There he was, a 6’7 living-room advertisement. Then he sat. "Just sat there," he said...
...think of me as a 14-year-old, since all these troubles have made me older; I won't regret my actions. I'll behave the way I think I should!" ANNE FRANK, in a 1944 letter to her father that was released last week, protesting after she was forbidden to spend time alone with a young man hiding from the Nazis with the Franks in Amsterdam...
...plane collides with a Chinese fighter jet, killing the Chinese pilot, then makes an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan; the crew is held for 10 days until the U.S. issues a letter expressing its regret...