What a wonderful story.....brightened up my day!
Lou, thanks for the story. You are a man's man. I wish you and Gail all the best
A quick thank you to Carl, 9BallPaul, Paulempor (looking forward to that drink, peterskw, David, marek, CaPoolFan, ric23, Jay, JoeyA (and yes and yes), Neil (I’ve printed it out and put it inside a card that she’ll be opening in a couple of days), douteric, Sherm, berko, Standbykid, GoldCrown, Sean, 12squared, TX BAD BOY, justadub, Roger, Tom, Rich, Dana, wahcheck, and Deadpoked,
Pt109, you are too kind.
To the survivors, like Joey Koontz and Underclocked, you guys must be some tough sumbeeatches to beat “the big c.” Congratulations.
To John H. I am so very sorry for your loss. We were very fortunate to catch it early on, but it is, no doubt, a curse of a disease.
And for Maniac, here are two pictures -- the first was taken shortly after we started dating and the second a couple of years ago at a table overlooking the bay in Puerto Vallarta.
Just a couple of additional words on this: I have had the idea that I wanted to write something like this the last few weeks and occasionally a memory would float through me head. So when it came time to write it, it pretty much wrote itself -- maybe 45 minutes. It wasn’t until I went back and reread it for the first time that I really realized what I had written and got pretty choked up myself (who knew pool players could be such softies). So, there it is.
Regards to one and all.
Lou Figueroa
Lou. you are a treasure to the pool world