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| Aaron Timothy Lee, director and producer of Dream Chaser, which airs this weekend on Marquee Sports Network, starting Friday, Nov. 25, at 7 p.m. CST |
“I got you. Don’t worry, Professor Fountain. I got you.” I can still hear his words. “Thee Aaron Lee.”
That’s what I called him. For that is how Aaron often referred to himself, almost in third-person while beaming and flashing his big white toothy smile, his eyes shining with the delight of a schoolboy who dreamt of someday becoming a professional sports reporter in this his hometown.
I first glimpsed that smile in what now seems like a lifetime ago, and after countless emails, texts and letters, office chats and telephone conversations shared between professor and student, mentor and mentee. Still hear the excitement in his voice, always detectable even when Aaron tried to bury the lead while delivering the latest news of some new job, journalism project or award.
Aaron has some really big news this week. And I know he would call or text or email so that I could shout it from the rafters, celebrate. If he could...
We both knew this day would come. That time waits for no man. It is a truth that Aaron arrived at in life much earlier than I did.
He was always young at heart. A dream chaser.