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Illinois Wesleyan University alum Dave Kindred is a legendary sportswriter. But Kindred says he didn t write about sports as much as he wrote about people.
Kindred s latest work is a stark departure from the work that encapsulated most of his career, but it is about some of the people dearest to him.
“I loved him in ways that I never loved anybody,” Kindred said of his relationship with grandson Jared, the subject of Kindred’s new memoir titled Leave Out The Tragic Parts that was published on Tuesday.
Kindred tells the story of his grandson’s struggle with addiction and how substance abuse cost him his life at age 25.