SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The most important phone call Taylor Decker ever received was one he did not answer.
It was December of 2011 and Decker was a senior at Butler High School in Vandalia, Ohio, home sick for the day when his cell phone rang. He glanced down and did not recognize the number so he didn’t answer. He never does. “If I don’t have them in my phone, I figure they don’t really have anything to say to me,” Decker says.
The person on the other end left Decker a message, though, and as soon as he saw he had a voicemail Decker decided he should give it a listen.