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Alpine

 upon Alpine, Chris and Ellen Ruggia were en route to Big Bend National Park. It was the early 1990s, and the population wasn’t much smaller than it is today. After the couple graduated from UT Austin, Ellen enrolled at Sul Ross State University in Alpine to

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