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These yarns of mine

I tell you the one about the bail bondsman who tried to hire someone to kill Ronnie Van Zant?” begins Alan Walden, with a mischievous glint in his eye. The 78-year-old was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s tour manager in the 1970s, which means he had his hands full. “Ronnie had beat this guy up, stole his girl, so he put some money down with a

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