I grew up thinking that a teacher or a coach was just someone who was there. It wasn't until I was learning from you that I knew that they were meant to be so much more. They were meant to make me enjoy my time with them. The mentors that don't respect you are the ones that make you regret ever learning the things that they are teaching but the ones that really matters are the ones that make you fall in love with it. You made me love what I do again. There are these amazing people who are placed in my life at just the right times. It can be intentionally, or completely by accident. No matter how they entered my life, I know they’ll forever leave a footprint on your life. This is a letter to the person who has impacted my life, and helped me grow into the man, more importantly, the writer I am today. You were all these things. You made me love everything I do now. You were the mentor that showed me that it was okay to be a little personal. You helped me through so much more than...