You're right not to run and hide from it. Ease on down, submerge your body & soul in it. Let the tears of bitter regret & pure hatred marinate your already blackened heart. Pop and Co. are already amassing the jacks & timbers required for the trip back down come November. It'll be a 100 game grailed quest like ours in 1985. I didn't know though. All I could do is suffer in the misery, lament the pain and the humiliation and bear the burden alone. I had no Forum, just a brother and a father devoted to the Boston Celtics. My father was merciful, but, my brother was merciless. Any family get together, any get together at all was an opportunity to break my ass and bust my balls.
If you're lucky, Rare, you'll find redemption & deliverance like the Lakers and I did in but a year.