When I finally sat down to pull this article together, I was reminded of a scene from “Miracle,” the 2004 sports movie that chronicles the 1980 U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team triumph over the Soviets at Lake Placid. In it, Mark Johnson, who later played in the National Hockey League, surrounded by three teammates, tells his coach, “We’re family.”
We’re no different at The SandPaper. We might not be competing for Olympic glory, but we’re always rooting for each other no matter what the goal.
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