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He died Sunday while in hospice care in Altamonte Springs, Florida, said Ellen James Martin, his former partner of 14 years.

“What was it all about?” said Diane Soto, who was wearing a mask and walking into a Chinese restaurant on Thursday afternoon in Altamonte Springs, Fla. “I don’t know.”

She left a corporate-owned medical practice in Altamonte Springs last year because of what she said was an abusive environment.

Though long out of coaching, Gibney, after a peripatetic tour through three regions of the country, lives in retirement in Altamonte Springs, Florida, where he has reportedly been supported by the Catholic fraternal order the Knights of Columbus, as well as by Opus Dei, the semi-secret church organization made famous by "The Da Vinci Code."

Now Boston’s game-planning coordinator, former Red Sox star Jason Varitek, led Altamonte Springs out of Florida to the 1984 United States championship.