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Take time to appreciate all
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Guest Column, on December 21, 2022
Take time to appreciate all

I’ve written a few letters to the editor in the past. They mostly had to do with some ill I wanted to point out. Ken Cooke graciously printed all of them — he didn’t have to, but he did. I’m grateful to him for letting me air my urgent rants. We came to Fredericksburg in 2006 as Ausländers,

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