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This was written the day Sean Taylor died. For the past few days I have searched for the right words to say one year later ... and found none. The raw immediacy may have passed, but the emotional echoes remain...

"Sean's Gone"

by Mark Steven (Scribe)

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Sports

November 26, 2008

NFL, NFC East, Washington Redskins, Sean Taylor

This was written the day Sean Taylor died.

For the past few days I have searched for the right words to say one year later ... and found none. The raw immediacy may have passed, but the emotional echoes remain.

Rather than grasping for new words, then, removed as they must be from the truth of the moment, I humbly offer here the words that poured out, almost unbidden, on that cold, rainy day.

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  1. reply to comment by Jack
    about 1 month ago

    I read this somewhere last year, I think on Redskins.com. I just cried again reading it. Mark, this piece is unbelievable.

    RIP #21!

  2. reply to comment by Lawrence
    about 1 month ago

    Forever #21 will live in the hearts and souls of everyone who ever watches and plays the game. RIP Sean!

  3. reply to comment by Elija
    about 1 month ago

    Amazing i had the same feeling getting in the car after the said he might make it then...boom my favorite player was gone Rip # 21

  4. reply to comment by chad
    about 1 month ago

    Wow mark you are truly an amazing writer! Just read this one after watching a Replay of UH and Washington on youtube. Colt and his favorite receiver Davone Bess had "ST" on their helmets for the game. The irony of it all is that it was Colt's greatest comeback and now he's a Redskin and Bess is in Miami. I firmly believe in divine intervention. Did Sean send Colt to the Skins? A little food for thought. Check out that video, they both gesture to the to the "ST".
    MALAMA PONO SEAN!

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