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Time hadn’t really been on his side.

Which was OK, because Dave Adamonis Sr. had a bottomless reservoir of spirit and an endless line of friends to get him through these last few agonizing years.

You could dwell on the sad news that he died Oct. 10 in a Providence, R.I., hospice after an unrelenting struggle with cancer, but that would diminish the greater picture, which is this: Dave Adamonis Sr., 63, lived a rewarding life built upon a formidable double foundation of family and golf.

There had been so many turns for the worse since Adamonis was diagnosed with cancer in the fall of 2005. When doctors in Florida on Sept. 27 recommended to the family that hospice was the only recourse, there wasn’t much debate between Roberta and her three children, Kim, Dave Jr. and Brad.

Leave it to Dave Adamonis Sr. to call an audible. The towel wouldn’t be thrown in – at least not yet, not in a fashion he didn’t approve of.