You made me write down every word I didn’t know and look it up. Every single one. I thought what was the point. Just let me read my book Coach Thompson. But you said athletes need strong minds too. You came to every single game even after you retired. Even when you needed that walker. Cancer took you fast. Six weeks from diagnosis to gone. At your funeral I learned you did that vocabulary thing with everyone you coached. For 35 years. There were hundreds of us there. I still write down words I don’t know.