When I was eighteen years old, I fell in love for the first and only time. It was with a man, which you might think is the point of this article, as it was in some others that have been published here, but it isn’t. With a fellow player, which was, and still is, controversial. With an enforcer, when they were still an indispensable part of every team. When they were there to take hits and throw punches and protect their team. When an enforcer was, as so many joked, a gladiator on skates, not a hockey player. We’re getting closer now. When I was eighteen I fell in love with a man, a fellow
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