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I had an interesting experience last week. I interviewed a dead man.

I know I will never win a Pulitzer with my writing or interviewing skills, but I now envision a place in a dusty corner of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. We sat down following a local Auxcom event, and I started the interview this way, “So Deadman, how did you get into this predicament?”

My first indication that he really was not that dead is during my initial phone call, he eagerly agreed to meet me anywhere to pass along his messages. Deadman — to

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