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Tom's Tall Tales - "You don’t have to agree with somebody..."
Tom's Tall Tales - "You don't have to agree with somebody to like them"
It’s weird when you miss somebody you hardly knew. I barely knew Tommy Denman, but I sure miss him.
I met Tommy at least 20 years ago as “Mr. Carolyn Denman,” the man behind Carolyn, his wife and a formidable woman super involved in the Memorial Hermann Northeast Volunteer Program.
I worked for Northeast and probably interacted with Carolyn several times a week, so I heard about Tommy, but I only saw him sporadically at special hospital events.
It wasn’t until after I retired that I got to know Tommy. By this time, Carolyn had died, I’d reverted to my journalism roots, and Tommy had to remind me of a couple of things Carolyn had insisted that I do when I retired.