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Born in 1979 in Bend, OR, now live in Eastern Oregon as a Protestant Christian married man. Blogger, freelance writer, small business owner, musician, greenskeeper, golfer, history buff, animal and nature lover, truth seeker and lover, veteran, and Historicist.

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