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Those Times I Failed Horribly

@davidfreiburger

A couple months ago I took one of journalism’s greatest risks: I wrote a column listing a number of people I’d met who had since passed away, and of course, one of them had not. Charlie Henry remains alive and well, though Larry Henry, who was Charlie’s nearly 20-year coworker at Mopar Performance, has passed away. The worst thing you can do is kill someone off erroneously.

Former HOT ROD editor Jeff Smith, who hired me in 1991, often

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