I am writing to congratulate Gordon Sinclair Jr. on his National Newspaper Award. Larger-than-life characters really mean less to this world than the life-size people he writes about -- the me's and the you's and the all-of-us's. Those who think themselves less than life-size, those who look for their next meal from a garbage can, those who've forgotten who they once were -- he lends a voice to those who are never heard.
It's why I like him, why I read his column and why I hold him in a special place in my heart. It's the little guy who needs his story told and he tells it. I thank him for it. And, by the way, when his column's done, those he has written about are larger-than-life.
Gordon Sinclair Jr. (centre) receives his National Newspaper Award in Toronto.
MYLES ROTHMAN
Winnipeg
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