Ravinia 2019, Issue 1, Week 2

Rob Thomas Is Living for Good It was 2015 , and Rob Thomas was scared to death. ¶ His wife, Marisol Maldonado, was waiting for her phone to ring, waiting to hear what the doctor had to say about the tunnel vision she had been experiencing, waiting to find out if the lesion that theMRI had found at the base bone of her brain was something that would change their lives forevermore. ¶ And there they were, one of music’s biggest music hit makers and one of the world’s most beau- tiful models sitting in a dreary parking lot in Chicago, waiting to learn their collective fate. ¶ “I remember that we went out by the airport, and for two weeks we parked our bus over by O’Hare and just everything stopped until we knew more,” the Matchbox Twenty frontman recalls to Ravinia . “And when I say everything stopped, I really mean everything .” 10 RAVINIA MAGAZINE | MAY 31, 2019 – JUNE 16, 2019