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Red Auerbach

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

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When a father loses a child, he feels the loss of all the possibilities and hopes that the child's future held. Conversely, when a child loses a parent, they lose the connection to their history and memories, as if their past disappears.

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