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Father Figures

BY LATE AFTERNOON AT CHURCHILL DOWNS, I’D LOST TRACK of the number of bourbon drinks I had consumed. There were icy mint juleps by the bucketload and more than a few Old Foresters on the rocks. I was feeling pretty damn good.

My wife, Sally, and I had left the kids with Grandma and Grandpa and traveled to Louisville for the 150th running of the Kentucky

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