Even After the Shock, It’s Hard to Get Used to Absence of Magic

Last week during breakfast and the sports page, my second-grade daughter asked me, “Why are you crying, Daddy?” I answered, “Magic can’t play basketball any more because he is sick,” and she understood as if I was describing an uncle. Thank you to The Times and in particular Messrs. Downey, Heisler, Murray, Springer and Malamud for eloquently describing all of our grief and for showing us that Earvin Johnson is as unbelievably brave and noble in private as we see him in public. Farewell Magic, but not goodby.

GLEN CREASON

Silver Lake