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Tyrese Boss bends down before every game he plays and writes July 11, 2019 on the grass with his fingers. That is the day he lost his father. Glen had colon cancer. He lost his grandmother two years before that, in 2017, right before he started high school. She had helped raise him. His mother, Linda Scott, raised him by herself. She worked at the California Institution for Men, the state prison in Chino, and the family moved to Chino Hills to be closer to her job. Before that they were in Rialto. He came out of Chino Hills High School as a two star recruit. Power 4 programs in his own state looked at him and not one of them offered him a scholarship. He was weighing Eastern Washington and Montana State when Wyoming called. "She thinks it's better for me because in California there's a lot of distractions," he said about his mother. "She thought Wyoming and Laramie was the best place for me to lock into the game and focus on me." Then he hurt his hand and lost his true freshman season. He did not get on the field until the final game of 2024. His cornerbacks coach in Laramie was a man named Benny Boyd. "There was obvious talent on the tape but it's more his personality," Boyd said. "We connected kind of through the tragedy of his dad passing away and my father passed away a lot of years ago now." "That was a connection, both having hard-working single mothers." "His mom is a very strong-willed tough woman who has raised him well." "I was raised in a very similar background, so I think we had an unspoken connection that way." Boss won the starting job at Wyoming in 2025. He kept writing the date. "I'm not going to lie; I shed a tear or two on the way to Akron because all those emotions hit me," he said. "I know they're not physically there, but I know they can see." "They're not here but I've got to make it happen because I promised them." In February of 2026, Benny Boyd took a job coaching cornerbacks at TCU. Boss entered the portal and chose Arizona, where the staff spent his visit talking about something other than football. "It wasn't just football conversations on my visit, it was life talk and family talk," he said. "That's what made me gravitate towards Arizona and make that decision." Arizona is 6 and 2 and ranked 22nd. Boss starts at cornerback. FRIDAY NIGHT, TCU comes to Tucson, and Benny Boyd will be standing on the other sideline coaching their corners. Before the game, Tyrese Boss will bend down and write a date on the grass. The man across the field is one of the few people in that stadium who already knows what it says.

My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years. Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question. "What do you miss?" She expects hamburgers. She almost never gets hamburgers. And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years. "Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio) "If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia) "My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas) "We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota) "A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan) "Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana) "In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona) "Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa) "I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania) Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand. Sora. Seventeen. Missouri. "Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said. She was wrong. In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up. It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to. "Saw the storm. You home safe?" Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways. "Home safe." Her host mom wrote back one line. "Good. That's all I needed." My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is. They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home. So, America. You think you've lost something. You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather. You don't remember doing any of it. A kid in Tokyo will never forget.

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