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TOM COYNE: Back In Circulation — Going Out On A Limb

It had been a rough past few weeks. At the end of May, my wife’s mother had passed away suddenly from respiratory and heart failure. This on the heels of her father’s death less than a year earlier. Then, our brother-in-law, diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer this spring, had taken his final breath Thursday, after several heart-breaking months of deterioration. …


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MARTIN C. FREDRICKS IV: Four The Record — Good Fence Makes Good Neighbors

Pour, Water, Tamp, Mix, Tamp… His name is Dennis. Five years of living 60 or 70 yards away, just over the backyard fence, I really should’ve known that already. I stood on his front step, shaking his hand and explaining that the posts that should’ve been holding up a couple of sections of our shared fence had rotted out. He’d …