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"No parent had time to talk to their children about their feelings," she says.

Regarding Lee’s demonstrations of caring and that memorable line, he paused to measure his words carefully before observing, “When people think that they care, and they want to talk to you out of their caring about their insight into your life . . . from a humanitarian point of view, I really appreciate that. But you’ve got it twisted, because that ain’t the way I see things, and that’s not my reality.”

Finebaum can talk to political elites, normal football fans, and deranged football fans, and those are pretty much every constituency someone needs in order to win public office in Alabama.

“I feel you have to leave on good terms because I know teammates that left last year that didn’t talk to coach Machuca at all,” he said.

“I felt as a man, I had to talk to him.”