by Graham Hays
ESPN.com
There should have been so many more decades to find the right words to explain Robyn DesOrmeaux. There should have been so many stories that they piled atop each other, first forgotten, then remembered and eventually embellished a dozen times in old age.
There should have been so much time.
Instead, DesOrmeaux, the starting goalkeeper for the LSU women’s soccer team just five years ago, is gone at the age of 27. This past Thursday, time ran out in her five-year battle with cancer.
“She just kept fighting,” former LSU coach George Fotopoulos said. “Some people do this, you see it in stories or you see it in movies, where people say, ‘George, it’s just my time to go.’ And they just give up.
“She never gave up.”
The stories that remain are painful parables of a personality. They are not the soft, comforting stories told from a distance of time to remember what was. They are the raw, fresh stories by which we reassure ourselves that we will not forget what never can be again. They are her.
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