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In his 1993 ESPY award speech, delivered while dying of cancer, Coach Jim Valvano extolled “three things we all should do every day.” By his lights, “Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.” Bob Greene’s op-ed “A Friend Lost to Lake Central Flight 527” (July 28) reminds me of an old friend lost to a Montana highway, and puts a check mark in the tears box.

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