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Fan who survived heart attack at Wrigley Field returning to thank Cubs employee who helped him

CHICAGO - What do you say to a stranger who helped save your life and protect your child?

How do you put into words gratitude impossible to measure for a gesture unreasonable to expect?

Who can explain making a lifelong friend visiting "The Friendly Confines" without seeing a single pitch?

David Danner expects a flood of questions and emotions to overcome him Monday when he enters Wrigley Field for the Cubs-Diamondbacks game with his family and sees Nirav Thakkar, one of the team's guest services ambassadors.

"I don't know exactly what's going to come out of my mouth or how I'll feel," Danner said in an interview from his home in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., about

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