For You: An open letter to Bruce Springsteen
November 8th, 2009 by Dan
Dear Bruce Springsteen,
As you scan the sea of signs surrounding the stage that plead for you to play one of your vintage classics at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Nov. 13, my wife, Jennifer, and I won’t be there.
Instead, we’ll be holding up our “4 U” request all the way across the arena in one of its handicap-accessible areas. To see us, you gotta look hard.
While we could play the ticket lottery and get our numbers called to stand near the stage the entire concert, our multiple sclerosis forces us to stay in our reserved seats.
Combined we’ve had MS for more than 20 years, and we each are living with very different forms of this disease. While I have the relapsing-remitting form and regularly compete in 5K runs, Jennifer has secondary-progressive MS and can no longer walk.
She uses a power wheelchair and this is why we, along with two of our friends coming from Iowa, must stay in the handicap-accessible area to experience the euphoria that you bring night after night after night after night.
Your music has pulled me through every phase of my life with MS: from fear and self pity, to anger and frustration and finally to acceptance and moving on with the vision of a brighter future. For that, I gratefully thank you.
And if it’s not too much to ask you for one favor: When you’re searching for requests at the Palace Friday night, please look straight across the arena for my baby and me waving our sign asking you and the E Street Band to play a full-rocking
“For You,” for us.
All the best,
Dan Digmann
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
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November 8th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
I hope he sees this and I hope you get your song! Hope you and DJ have a blast and that Jenn and Deb can put up with the giddyness exuding from you and DJ!
November 10th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
You rock. The sky is the limit, and there is nothing you two cannot do without each other…including making a famous person turn their head.
Oh, wait. That’s right. You guys are famous, too.
November 10th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
okay…i totally used too many words that didn’t make that work. There is nothing you two cannot do with each other?? I think that’s what I wanted. Oh, heck. You know what I mean.