re: Mauk may have played his last game at Mizzou

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Sorry but excuses watched my dad die in front of me and did not result in me doing lines to "fight the pain".

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I am happy you were able to avoid that. Others have not adjusted so well. My mother died from a terrible brain tumor my first semester at college. Watching her like that, for the years before the end had left me in a very dark place where I tried to drown out the world with every substance I could find. Fortunately, I had friends who were there for me when I hit bottom. Their intervention probably saved my life.

I just hope this kid has people like that around him.