It's a small, eerily small world
I just got off the phone with new Eastern Guilford boys basketball coach Dion Lansdale, who I'll have a story on tomorrow. I introduced myself and asked him how the move from San Antonio has gone. Eventful, he said, what with a wife, five kids and a dog in tow.
"I know how that goes," I said. "I just moved here from Detroit not too long ago."
"Oh, really?" he said. "Where in Detroit?"
"North suburbs," I said.
"Near Grosse Pointe?"
"Yeah, I grew up in St. Clair Shores."
"I spent two years near there."
"No kidding."
"Yeah, and my best friend still coaches up in Macomb County."
"No way. That's where my family is now."
"He was with Chippewa Valley Schools."
"That was my district."
"He was the coach at Dakota."
"Adam Demorest! Are you kidding me?"
It was the basketball coach from my high school, a guy who opened up the gym for me countless times. Lansdale said they met in fifth grade, were college roommates and talk pretty much every day. How weird is that?
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