I didn’t know then how much he was hiding inside that answer.
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Then Knox collapsed during a basketball game.
Just like that.
Seventeen years old, running across a court one second, gone the next.
His coach called me first. Then the hospital. Then the school.
At his memorial service, the church was packed with faces I didn’t recognize.
One teammate said, “Knox never let anybody eat lunch alone.”
A teacher said, “He noticed the kids everybody else had already given up on.”
Then a boy in the back stood up and whispered, “He made me believe I wasn’t a lost cause.”
That sentence stayed with me all the way home.
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