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Beating the blitz

Since she is a mother, a wife, and a football coach’s wife, Christine Zampese is running through her blessings like it is a roster. Or, better yet, one of her husband’s game day call sheets.

“Domata and Anna Peko sent me flowers before my last chemo treatment,” she is saying one day last week between all the games and medicine and nerves and nausea.

“The Daltons have sent flowers. The McCarrons have offered to bring dinner and they check on me . . . Marvin will text me regularly. Hue and Michelle check on me. Nancy Brown called and asked me to lunch .