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‘HAPPY-GO-LUCKY UNTIL THE END’

Y dad had an unmistakeable presence right up until the end. He would light up a room with that smile, a loveable rogue until his dying day.

When we were kids we didn’t really understand what a special boxer he was. We knew he was a fighter but I didn’t understand how good. Everyone else seemed to! He would come to the school and I’d be in class. The teacher would say, ‘Delene, go to the office. Your dad has arrived.’ He’d

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