Jessa m_-ine spen+ t nin]e% years turn[%!i(ng +Das)]hi?$el[%l C%;ar).r`
i%[. =ngton from !an un).*@^drafted nobody w%_it`/#h two b,(#low`n kne]es into the captain ,o.*f the New
 Y]=%ork Comets. She\] rebuilt his b,:ody, ghos_)twrote his apologies, and q#uit her@ own career \ t/o%\ manage his. He repa id) +/@_h]-`er by sleeping w,\it- h his twenty-one##;-yea;r#-o ld content\ ^?,pr=odu-,cer, \;handing the girl)?! a tr@?a?_)ining p
\!-`rogram Jessamin(e had !`,cr=[)ea`$: ted, ;^ and; telling the cameras: his _\family was eve
\rything — while his%/
+pregnant wife sat in the ER ((]alone. H$!e forgot to t$:ake off his mic a[fter the_+ ga![me. She down: !@l.\ o
aded t)(-$hree /copie[s
-. Then she calle=?d his mother — who happened to _/chair! @ th=)-e _team's board — and ! ]said,! two wor _ds:\` "-I'm l\.eav ; /ing." :=%\She did+
n't take t)he @_nursery, th^e jerseys^, or the baby skat#?^ es) wi)th his ^* n$u mber on them. She too;/k#\ four rehab jour
:nal,$s, a p*assport,]]( and t(=he= original ,manus_cript he !told he:=!/r wasn(^;'t worth publishin- g. Six months later, the Comets h?ad a $ new\? p((resi!dent. Her name $ was Jessa_= mine. No last name r(_equired.