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On his walk home after practice every day, Marc Trestman thinks about phoning his father just one more time, looking forward to one more conversation, one more opportunity to connect.

“I’m with him every day in my own way,” said the Argos coach in a private interview. “I don’t start my day or finish my day without thinking of him. I’ve found a place where we’re together every day.”

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Jerry Trestman, father of a football coach, died on Labour Day at the age of 88.

Personally and professionally, this has been as challenging and emotional a season as coach Trestman has ever had, may ever have.

His dad passed away. His mother has had cancer and treatments and now more cancer. His wife, a year removed from stem-cell surgery, is fighting a winnable battle with multiple myeloma, the same disease her older sister is battling.

Trestman left the Argos on three different occasions this season to be with his family in Minnesota, while at the same time struggling to keep the Argos above water and somehow not allowing his personal life to interfere with his football life.