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Published on Saturday, January 12, 2008
By Tom Hoffarth
Hockey somehow speaks to Isabella Masenga. It does it in ways her parents and twin sister - or anyone else for that matter - can't fully understand.
Saturday at Staples Center, as the Kings scrambled back to take their game against the Dallas Stars into overtime and then a shootout, hockey made a profound connection with the soon-to-be 10-year-old from Pasadena who lives with a form of autism that prevents her from verbal communication.
Watching from a second-level luxury suite, her eyes lit up, a smile was painted onto her face and she seemed to embrace every moment of the exchange.
"It's probably the best day of her life," said her mother, Suzanne.
"It's the happiest I've ever seen her," said her father, Tom.
Until recently, no one in the family knew that she even was aware that the sport existed.
In all fairness, there was no way Bellie, as they call her, could tell them
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