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JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — Too Many Funerals; Sorry, Max

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I should have been in Wahpeton Tuesday. I should have been at the funeral of my best childhood friend, Max Reinke. But I just couldn’t take another funeral right now.  I’ve been to too many lately. But luckily, my friend Kevin Carvell says, none of them were mine. I know, it’s just a function of my age (soon to be …

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JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — Don Hoak

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OK, here’s a true story about the beauty of living long enough to be a part of the technological revolution of the 21st century. Read: Facebook. Last week, Lillian became Facebook Friends with a mutual friend of ours from our separate earlier lives, Rick Watson. In a note to her, he mentioned an old story I had recounted to him …

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