No. 199: KURTIS GABRIEL / He was the most tough-minded teenager I ever wrote about. His challenges in retirement are daunting, but you can't bet against him
When we talked about hockey in Owen Sound, he mentioned his father's death in passing. I knew there had to be more there. In retirement he's come to understand there was more there than even he knew.
For the thousands of folks who follow his Instagram account, Kurtis Gabriel dropped this update about his diagnosis of Bipolar Type II
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