Vince Wilfork

Now we had to make sure and take care of my grandmother who died in our arms.

And I remember.

I mean, it's one, two o'clock in the morning.

We're driving to go to the hospital.

My mom driving and she my mom's crying.

Me and my brother, we we sit in the back seat, basically holding my grandmother while she's she's deceased.

And that's at 10 years old.

So that woman, she was like a mother to me and my brother.

You know, I tell my wife all the time, I love to be rubbed.

And the reason I love to be where rub is because that's where comfort.

That's what my grandmother did to me every night.

And mind you, my grandma was probably 80 pounds, but she would lay me across her lap and she would rub my back every night and she would put me to sleep, you know?

Um, so I tell my wife all the time where my grandmama did it to me.

So it's like, it's a comfort for me to be touched and be rubbed, uh, to be, you know, nurtured, you know, um, because, um,

My life just wasn't set up like a typical kid where I can play, I can do this, I can have friends, I can go here.

I didn't have that because, you know, me and my brother, we had responsibility at a young age to take care of my father.

And we never...

We never once felt bad about doing it.

This was just something we did.

We love my father so much.