And you shall be, fondly, but you won't care about it because when you're dead, you're dead, and until then...

I loved Brooke very much, but I've known in my heart he's been dead for some time now.

So this was an amazing experience, and again, yes, it was a game, but they didn't write newspaper articles, people didn't say, "You know, really, I can die now, because the Red Sox won."

In any case, someone would return a few months later and leave a note on Dad's kitchen table, which simply said, "Consider yourself dead."