May Lee with her father at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Courtesy of May Lee May Lee, a lifelong soccer fan, bought a ticket for the World Cup final for $10,925. She scaled back travel plans for her 60th birthday to afford the ticket. This is Lee's first year going to the World Cup without her father, who died in 2019. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with May Lee, a 59-year-old seasonal broadcast engineer at a research station in Antarctica, and former marketing and c...