As Norma Munroe lay dying in a Florida hospice bed, her body weakened by a four-year battle with lung cancer and her faculties dulled by dementia, visitors who walked into her dimly lit room could count on two things
One was that Allan Munroe, her husband of more than sixty years, would be seated next to the bed in a wooden chair, holding her hand in his. The other was that Allan's eyes would be intently glued to a TV screen if his beloved Boston Red Sox were playing, counterbalancing the room's grim immediacy with the steady routine of balls and strikes, outs and base hits
The Red Sox have helped 87-year-old Allan these past few years by "being an escape from a reality that hasn't always been so great," says his granddaughter Angela McKinnon Read more...
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