I had become periodically insane, with long bouts of horrible sanity…
–Mark McCawley
Just how do we define someone like Mark McCawley, who died earlier this year after a twelve-year wrestling match with cancer? Writer Bart Plantenga does his best in a memorial to an energetic, loving, larger-than-life man whom he admired greatly.
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