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Thank you for everything Gronk.

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Rob Gronkowski, #87, announced his retirement on Sunday, March 24th. Picture from Sports Illustrated https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/02/04/rob-gronkowski-retirement-super-bowl-2019-patriots-rams  "Yo Soy Fiesta." Teddy Bear. 6-foot-6 second grader. Game changer. Twinkle Toes.  Gronk. Rob Gronkowski was drafted to the NFL in 2010 in the 42nd pick to play for the New England Patriots. He was a former player at the University of Arizona, while being one of four brothers to play a sport professionally. He quickly became one of the most well-known players on the team, and Brady's go to tight end. Throughout his career in the NFL, Gronk had 79 receiving touch downs while having 7,861 receiving yards. In the 9 years he played for the Patriots, he won 3 Super Bowls and became a 5x pro bowler. He was in the Top 100 in the NFL 7 times, and was the 2011 NFL receiving touchdowns' leader, as well as the 2014 NFL Comeback Player of the year. Gronk suffered a number of injuri

Why We Failed Gypsy Rose Blanchard

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dee Dee, pictured on the left. On the right, Patricia Arquette and Joey King play the mother and daughter duo in the new original series The Act , on Hulu. Picture taken from https://www.eonline.com/news/1014549/how-joey-king-and-patricia-arquette-transformed-for-the-act On June 14th, 2015, sheriffs in Greene County, Missouri received a 911 call checking on the well fare of Dee Dee Blanchard and her disabled daughter, Gypsy Rose. This was after a neighbor had seen a disturbing Facebook status from Dee Dee's account. Police found the body of Blanchard, face down in her bed, with stab wounds inflicted in her back from days before. Her daughter Gypsy, who according to her mother suffered from leukemia, asthma, muscular dystrophy, and many other chronic conditions, was no where to be found. Facebook posts from Dee Dee only shortly after her murder. Picture taken from https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/gypsy-blanchard Police