“Standing on the side of a lake with a pole, in the sun, hoping for the best, was not my thing,” she remembered. “I didn’t like touching slimy things, didn’t want any part of it. I would’ve rather been in dance class.”
Elizabeth Haigh left her son Alexander’s fishing instruction to his father,
Michael Devine. That’s how she looked at fishing.
And then one day, her view changed.
Michael passed away.
At the time, Elizabeth, of New Port Richey, FL, had been separated from Michael, but grief has a way of moving into spaces. Grief for a lost love. Grief for a grieving son.
“I had that moment,” said Elizabeth, “Where, OMG, Alex wasn’t gonna be fishing anymore. That was taken away from him.”
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