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DETROIT, MI - MARCH 31: The Detroit city skyline viewed from Windsor after the Detroit Red Wings NHL game against the Chicago Blackhawks at Joe Louis Arena on March 31, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)
DETROIT, MI - MARCH 31: The Detroit city skyline viewed from Windsor after the Detroit Red Wings NHL game against the Chicago Blackhawks at Joe Louis Arena on March 31, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)

"My cell phone was blowing up. It was 7:30 in the morning, two hours before I usually get up. It kept ringing, buzzing. I finally checked it. People were sending me pictures of the place I bought, the Imagination Station, on fire. Mary and I got in the car and drove over. It's two blocks from where I live, and a small crowd was standing around, watching it burn. I didn't know what to think. Someone suggested it was started by kids shooting off fireworks. I don't know. We didn't have any enemies.

"I had a '95 Ford Explorer that was stolen the morning after the Super Bowl. So Mary called her family--they live downriver--to see if we could borrow the Suburban. We had that for three weeks before it got stolen.

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