Conaway: Steve Larkin was salt of the Earth and a legend
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
If we’re lucky — very lucky — life will afford us a few very good friends — friends who expect nothing from us but us, friends whose simple presence in a room makes the room better and the day improved.
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