Yesterday, the chief editor of The Best American Sports Writing series Glenn Stout tweeted a story I wrote about 2 All-American, 3 drafted NFL football players from the University of Alabama who saved my life in the F-5 Tuscaloosa Tornado 4/27/11 then took me to the Green Room at the NFL Draft 4/26/12. Dont’a Hightower, De’Quan Menzie and Nico Johnson guys were college roommates helping me do what I can’t do because I live with the inability to write (dysgraphia), to do arithmetic (dyscalculia), to see or feel fingers (finger agnosia) and to tell left from right (left-right disorientation). If it matters, I wrote this story right now because the Iron Bowl is in 4 days, I'm taking my little brother, and because Homecoming was last week. Prominent writers all tell me to go to graduate school for networking so I can one day be a great writer but I’ve been living hotel to hotel in Nashville and sometimes homeless so there is no way I would risk a student loan for a networking opportunity. It really feels great to be recognized for words by a guy like Mr. Stout who chooses the best sports writing year after year. If you can read and tell me what you think that would be a dream. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.

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This post was edited on 11/25/14 at 11:49 pm