Ronnie,
My best friend Steve Finamore who produces the Container Diaries sent me today 10-9-09 the piece that you wrote on your blog about my brother Drew. I just wanted to say thank you and how appreciative my family was to read that and hear those great stories involving Drew from friends that we have not heard from in many years. My parents are getting up there in age. My mom is 78 while dad turned 84. As expected their memory is not the best. My mom recently had surgery on her eyes for her glaucoma and was not able to read the story that you wrote. I printed it out and read the piece to her. After I finished reading the story my mom started to cry...partially from missing my brother but also so happy that people remembered him in a good way that made her very happy that in some small way his memory lives. The blog response was funny with some great stories. I remember the sky rink trips and the Ave F camaraderie with his friends. He loved that league on Ave F and the friendships that he had with so many guys from that time in his life. He loved hockey to no end and that league was the reason why he did so much. I am sure that he is somewhere playing with Inky, Chuckie Hadjar, Powell, and the rest who no longer walk this earth and who are in a better place. Thank you so much again for your kindness and generosity in writing that piece. You put a lot of time into your blog for it is well written and well done. Hopefully I'll run into you one of these days and chat more about those times. Take care.
Sincerely,
Glenn Thomas
Ron Lopez
Mopar195@yahoo.com
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