“Stop and put your hands where I can see them!”
The officer hollows as he continues running after the boy, who has the stolen loaf of bread cradled in his arm like a running back running a football. Donny bolts through the busy sidewalks filled with people. The officer continues behind him and radios in but is slowly losing track.
“We have a 10-43 requesting backup on Yawkey way.”
Donny has a 100 foot gap on the enervated officer. Donny reaches the street corner and makes the split-second decision to turn the corner only to collide with an ongoing pedestrian. They both collide hard and fall to the ground. It takes a few seconds for Donny to process what just happened and as he gets up to start running again, the man stops.
“I’m sorry kid”, the man says, “Nice Bruins shirt.”
Donny can hear the sounds of the sirens in the distance. “Thanks” Donny mutters, “I gotta go otherwise I’m screwed.”
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He worked his way up the ranks and ended up getting drafted by the Boston Bruins when he was 19. Two years later, he got married and had a son. Sal explains how life couldn’t be any better and how to not take life for granted because one day he lost it all. He explains how one day, the family was taking a camping road trip and his wife was driving. Then, on the highway his wife loses control of the car and everything goes black. He wakes up in a hospital with a sharp pain driving through both of his legs and with the horrific news that his wife and son didn’t make it. The injuries he sustained made it near impossible for him to ever skate again. His life went crashing down in the blink of an eye. Sal explains that ever since the accident he’s isolated himself in his apartment hoping that one day he will have a loving wife and son to care for. Then when he realized that when he met Donny, Donny made him feel like a father again and it was the first time since the accident he felt that
The officer hollows as he continues running after the boy, who has the stolen loaf of bread cradled in his arm like a running back running a football. Donny bolts through the busy sidewalks filled with people. The officer continues behind him and radios in but is slowly losing track.
“We have a 10-43 requesting backup on Yawkey way.”
Donny has a 100 foot gap on the enervated officer. Donny reaches the street corner and makes the split-second decision to turn the corner only to collide with an ongoing pedestrian. They both collide hard and fall to the ground. It takes a few seconds for Donny to process what just happened and as he gets up to start running again, the man stops.
“I’m sorry kid”, the man says, “Nice Bruins shirt.”
Donny can hear the sounds of the sirens in the distance. “Thanks” Donny mutters, “I gotta go otherwise I’m screwed.”
There …show more content…
He worked his way up the ranks and ended up getting drafted by the Boston Bruins when he was 19. Two years later, he got married and had a son. Sal explains how life couldn’t be any better and how to not take life for granted because one day he lost it all. He explains how one day, the family was taking a camping road trip and his wife was driving. Then, on the highway his wife loses control of the car and everything goes black. He wakes up in a hospital with a sharp pain driving through both of his legs and with the horrific news that his wife and son didn’t make it. The injuries he sustained made it near impossible for him to ever skate again. His life went crashing down in the blink of an eye. Sal explains that ever since the accident he’s isolated himself in his apartment hoping that one day he will have a loving wife and son to care for. Then when he realized that when he met Donny, Donny made him feel like a father again and it was the first time since the accident he felt that