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Hear Me Out
Tuesday, May 10, 2016, 10:30am

     The river spreads out beneath the concrete deck of the Bong Bridge. A flat plain of decaying ice extends from the Minnesota riverbank to the wooded Wisconsin shore looming larger through the windshield of my road-weary Pacifica. I’m headed east to Appleton to say goodbye to a friend. My wife sits quietly in the Chrysler’s front passenger seat, classical music playing softly in the background, rubber humming against cement, as the river’s wide, frozen estuary passes below.

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