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"My Father
is a mathematician. He teaches in the Math and Statistics Department at Sacramento State. My Mother is a French-Canadian figure skater, but she went back to Montreal after I graduated from High School, and Dad has been by himself for too many years. It is a sad story."
Griff reached into his pocket, pulled out his wallet, opened it, pulled his chair closer to Caydance, and showed her a photograph.
"This was taken at my High School graduation. I was wildly happy that I had a football scholarship to the University of Washington and would be playing for the Huskies, and I did not know that this was the last time that I would see my Mom and Dad together -- not counting Super Bowl 11, Super Bowl 15, and Super Bowl 18."