When Alejandro Villanueva returned to a victorious Steelers locker room in San Diego earlier this month, a congratulatory text message awaited him. The revelry that followed his teammates’ thrilling, last-second Monday Night Football comeback just getting started around him, he picked up his cell phone. The text was from AuNeta Southern.


“We just watched the most exciting five seconds of a game we’ve ever seen,” she wrote.


Down in North Texas, Mrs. Southern was surprised to receive an almost immediate response from Mr. Villanueva, the Steelers’ backup offensive tackle playing his first full season on the active roster. She knows she shouldn’t have expected any less, because ever since her nephew, Jesse Dietrich, was taken from her four years ago, Mr. Villanueva has gone above and beyond the call of duty to show her that he cares, that Jesse’s memory lives on with him............

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