6/23/2015 3:57:00 PM | Men's Cross Country/Track & Field, United In Blue Fund
By Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe Columnist
There wasn't a seat to be had at St. Andrew's Church in Wellesley the other day, and people managed to laugh and cry remembering Connor Darcey, because life works that way, belly laughs one day and tears the next.
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Connor Darcey was a terrific young man and it didn't seem right, and it certainly didn't seem natural, that a 21-year-old kid was dead, the victim of a car crash in the North End. It takes our breath away when someone dies so young.
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But it seems even more unfathomable when that young person, like Connor Darcey, was an athlete, so fit, so teeming with energy.
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When an athlete dies young, the shock seems deeper, the slap of the reality of our own mortality sharper.
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It feels the same way in Lowell today, because Jeremiah Karanja is dead and no one can believe it.
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Jeremiah Karanja and Connor Darcey had very different backgrounds — Jeremiah, the urban immigrant African kid who ran track; Connor, the Penn State lacrosse goaltender from one of Boston's nicest suburbs. Connor was a star. Jeremiah was not.
Click here to read Kevin Cullen's complete column
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There wasn't a seat to be had at St. Andrew's Church in Wellesley the other day, and people managed to laugh and cry remembering Connor Darcey, because life works that way, belly laughs one day and tears the next.
Â
Connor Darcey was a terrific young man and it didn't seem right, and it certainly didn't seem natural, that a 21-year-old kid was dead, the victim of a car crash in the North End. It takes our breath away when someone dies so young.
Â
But it seems even more unfathomable when that young person, like Connor Darcey, was an athlete, so fit, so teeming with energy.
Â
When an athlete dies young, the shock seems deeper, the slap of the reality of our own mortality sharper.
Â
It feels the same way in Lowell today, because Jeremiah Karanja is dead and no one can believe it.
Â
Jeremiah Karanja and Connor Darcey had very different backgrounds — Jeremiah, the urban immigrant African kid who ran track; Connor, the Penn State lacrosse goaltender from one of Boston's nicest suburbs. Connor was a star. Jeremiah was not.
Click here to read Kevin Cullen's complete column
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