A toast to the best
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Apologies in advance for how personal this tribute will be but I don't know how else to do this. When I was 20 years old, I was scared, confused, entirely unsure about what I could possibly do with my life. All of my childhood dreams -- to play second base for the Cleveland Indians, to play wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, to play point guard for…