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to let you go, and there are an awful lot of people in the whole county who are very, very, very grateful to you for all the wonderful things you’ve done for us, and things that you’ve done for people who will never know you or never know us.

“If there’s ever a time when you aren’t quite sure whether you really got anything done, and whether you were really appreciated, I hope you will remember that lamp ... and what’s in here,” she said, presenting the veteran planner with a serving tray with his initials on the front and an inscription on the back.

“For Dick, whose vision has assured our future, your grateful Fauquier friends, 1993.”

Not all of the gifts were so serious. The aforementioned lamp is an aging horse-head monstrosity that has been in McNear’s fourthfloor office for many years. And in addition to a framed copy of a Board of Supervisors’ resolution commemorating his retirement, Rappahannock County administrator John McCarthy brought a resolution from the county in which McNear resides.

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