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CHARLEVOIX – Charlevoix golf coach Doug Drenth was floating in and out of consciousness − kept alive by a ventilator and amazing trauma surgery.

His son Maxwell Drenth had a broken clavicle and a broken arm, the skin held together with a row of staples.

Joe Gaffney, one of the golfers, was recovering from surgery. His shattered pelvis was pieced back together with 76 screws and plates and a chain that looked like a necklace strung inside his body. And the rest of the Charlevoix golf team was in various stages of recovery − both physical and mental after a deadly crash on April 27 in Benzie County.

At the same time, back home in Charlevoix, something magical was s

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