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Adrienne Courtney Dantin January 28,1980- January 30, 2001 Today marks the 14th anniversary of the death of my niece, Adrienne Courtney Dantin. Adrienne was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma weeks after she began her freshman year of college at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Transy is a Disciples of Christ University adjacent to the University of …

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As a child growing up in New Orleans, every Sunday night our family would watch a locally broadcasted show on the Public Broadcasting Station called, “A Sunday Journal.” The show was hosted by the late, Jim Metcalf. At the time of Jim Metcalf’s death in 1977, he was considered the “unofficial poet laureate” of New …

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