![]() ![]() ![]() Two summers later, two campers in my age group came back to camp after tragically losing a parent in the year between summers. We knew nothing at all and we would talk about the life we lived. Mac wrote a song called REMember in his 2013 album and it went, “I remember, when we were just kids. We wore REMember bracelets, hung a REMember plaque in the dining, and created a REMember counselor of the year award to help immortalize our friend. His parents used the word REMember to immortalize their son and they capitalized the first three letters to represent his name, Reuben Eli Matrani. Andrew waited a while but he got his picture with Mac.Ī few months later, Reuben, one of the friends that Mac came to visit, suddenly died after going on a run and falling into a sudden stroke. A long line emerged before Mac of old friends, camp kids, and older staff members eager to greet him with a hug. When I was 12, our councilors became color war captains and on the final night of color war Mac surprised them with a visit. His uncle represented Mac as an attorney and his cousin started the record label that made Mac Miller famous. They called him “Easy Mac” and shared stories of his new adventures in the hip hop world, his love for a girl who wouldn’t pay him any attention until he made it, and his goofy smile that became camp famous before it was MTV famous.Īround this time, I lived with a kid named Andrew Myers. His close friends stuck around for a few more summers and they become my councilors when I was 10, 11, and 12. He was a blue team “Teen Challenge” captain and he left camp with some of the best cheers ever written, a plaque bearing his name in the rec hall, and memories of a skinny kid wearing baggy clothes with a wide grin. His Teen two year was his last summer there. He sang “Wonder-wall” at Shabbat concert, wrote his name on the ceiling of his cabin on final night, and laughed well into the night with his best friends around a campfire overlooking cheat lake in West Virginia. Mac was a Pittsburgh rapper who spent his boyhood at Emma Kaufmann Camp.
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