STATE-BOUND

Phil Lang
24 min readMar 11, 2020

Last week I traveled back to Minnesota to watch my niece become the first person in my family to play in the State High School Hockey Tournament. Because this essay includes stories about folks under the age of 18, names have been changed.

Where the dream begins…

PART I: QUARTERS

I bought the plane ticket home on February 11. One day before my niece and her team, Breck, would play in the…

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