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The Trip To New England

January 5-15, 1998

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The John LeClair Story

For all of you who do not follow hockey, the following person is a lad by the name of John LeClair. He is a hockey player on the Philadelphia Flyers. Why am I talking about him? Well, this guy came up to me on the bus from Vermont to Boston asking for food. He told me he was on the way from Vermont to Mexico, switching busses from White River Junction to Springfield, then getting a ride to New York, where he would fly to Mexico.

OK, why am I saying this? He told me he plays hockey, and his favorite team is the Philadelphia Flyers, who have this guy named John LeClair. He then told me he was his cousin. Therefore, I said, "Wow, you're Joh LeClair's cousin?" And he resonded positively. Then I asked him if LeClair was on the US Olympic hockey team and then he told me something like, "Yes I am on the US Junior Hockey team." He totally missed the question. Then I asked him if John LeClair was going to Nagano, Japan for the Olympics. He then told me, "I am not on the team. If I'm lucky, they'll fly me to Nagano to see the Olympics." Still didn't get it. I wasn't asking about his ambitions to make the Olympic team or not, I was asking about JOHN LeCLAIR!!!!!!

Well, Mr LeClair, who is from Vermont, as Jesse Passackow told me all throughout Year Course, and then his parents told me when I went to his house, is indeed representing the US in the Winter Olympics. OK, I'm lazy. I think I'm going to finish this later.