"I'm gonna beat this."
Every conversation with Mel Antonen over the past year, every email, every Zoom, every FaceTime, every single interaction included these words.
Dealt a horrible hand with multiple health issues - something called hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, a rare autoimmune disease that attacked his liver, followed by bouts with COVID-19 and then lymphoma - Mel battled to the very end. Unfortunately, that came late Saturday night, when he passed in his sleep. Mel was 64.
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