Conaway: Scratches don’t define life; they define experience
Dan Conaway
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Earlier this week, Debbie walked around my car with a pink marker.
As she did, I was transported back 11 years. I was sitting on the bank of the Wolf River, drinking a longneck Ghost River beer and talking to my daughter, Hallie, in Pennsylvania. I remembered a guy showed me how to open the beer with a Bic lighter in the absence of a church key. I also remembered, a very long time ago and also in the absence of a church key, I’ve been known to do that with my teeth.
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