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The voice of USC football does his most important work for an audience of one

LOS ANGELES - Marcia Kislinger was dying, taking her last breaths, but her family wasn't there yet. They had just been notified.

They were rushing from their homes to her bedside at Providence St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. They were worried they wouldn't arrive in time, and the 63-year-old woman would die alone.

As they raced into her room, they suddenly stopped, struck with the oddest of sights. She had company.

Sitting at her bedside was a stranger with a walrus mustache and the touch of a feather. He was stroking her hand and whispering into her ear. She was not responding. He continued speaking.

"It's OK. ... I'm right

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