That was the number one thing. Our parents were people of action. We saw the sacrifices that came before us and it was all for us. We're able to pull together because of our parents. Today, dozens of hockey sticks lean inside the screened porch of the pale-blue house on Elmer Street.
Hockey gloves are everywhere.
There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about them. I feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world. I had the greatest parents for 19 and 21 years. It was almost like a clown car. Sometimes you just put your head down and you just barrel through.