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Monty Tayloe

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

One year ago this week, I started writing for The Rappahannock News. It’s been a good year, and I’ve learned a lot. I could take this space to reminisce about it all, and this would be a nice column about about fecal matter dwelling bacteria, cows going to school, and motorcycle crashes. Combined, those images do create a hilarious mental picture, but they’re all old news around here anyway.

Instead, I could talk about myself, and this column would be all about Fork Union Military Academy (I hated it) and William & Mary ( I loved it) and my Ultimate Fighting career (I don’t have one). But I won’t, because that’s boring even with lame jokes inserted.

Instead, I thought I’d talk about the job I’ve tried to learn to do for this past year. Newspaper Reporter. I got into

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