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Dangling Participles

April 20, 2008

Arnold's dad has to be proud of his son

Posted at 8:50 am by John Sleeper

If you read nothing else today, read Kirby Arnold's tribute to his father in today's sports section. It's a moving piece about a man who dedicated much of his life working with young people through baseball.

Kirby is a great writer. Just by reading his column, I feel like I knew his dad, how important the game was to him and how he used it to reach the kids he coached. Somewhere, Walter Milton Arnold is looking at his son, who happens to be our baseball, and has to be grinning with great pride.

It's also a heartbreaking insight about the cruel way Alzheimer's takes away the people we love. We know very little about the disease. We know of no cure. We know of no cause.

That's the cruelty.

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