After losing his wife to cancer, Caps fan completes their 36-venue tour

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Capitals fan Greg Christian held a handmade poster outside of Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena last Wednesday depicting the 36 venues in which he had seen his favorite team play. In his other hand, the Baltimore native and D.C. resident gripped a 20-by-30-inch photograph of his late wife, Dona Coultice-Christian, wearing her matching lavender Hockey Fights Cancer sweater. The couple had visited 34 hockey venues together before Dona died of pancreatic cancer last Thanksgiving. Greg made sure she was by his side for the final two stops of their tour.

“I came to the realization that she would’ve wanted me to go, and so I went,” said Christian, who considered postponing trips earlier this month to St. Louis and Toronto, home to the only two active arenas in which he and his wife hadn’t seen the Capitals play. “I thought taking the picture of her was a way to have her along with me. We already had the tickets, so I actually put the poster of her in her seat."

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/01/29/after-losing-his-wife-cancer-caps-fan-completes-their-venue-tour/?utm_term=.6dbfcbaec06f

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1. Damn, my eyes are leaking