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    The Road Home

    Dec 28, 2021 3 minutes
    BY DOUGLAS SCOTT CLARK, STURGIS, MICHIGAN
    ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN BARTLETT

    MY WIFE, Arbutis, and I graduated high school in May 1960 and wed that June. We couldn’t wait to start our married life! We set up house in Knoxville, Tennessee, enjoyed a newlyweds’ summer and watched the fall leaves change together. But that winter, on our first Christmas Eve as husband and wife, I was finishing up a job three hours away.

    Money was tight, and I’d picked up work in Nashville

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