“My acquaintance with loss has sustained me during the stormy passages of my life when
the pink slips came through the door, when the checks bounced at the bank…when the despair
caught up with me…It sustained me when my mother lay dying of leukemia… Though I learned
some things from the games we won that year, I learned much, much more from loss.”
~Pat Conroy, Passage taken from ‘My Losing Season’
On a cold and cloudless October evening in southeastern Nebraska, Lewiston High was defeated by Sterling 48-0 in their final game of the 2008 season. Standing on the 50 yard line long after everyone had gone home, I couldn’t help but wonder what a 2-8 season would teach these kids and what lessons they’ll carry with them when they enter the push and shove of the real world.
It’s a story still to be written, but I hope Pat Conroy is right.
Lewiston High School grandstand, Lewiston , NE (pop. 86)
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