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...acknowledges Duley's "difficulties" and congratulates him on the upside--that his young daughter continues to live with him. As the men talk, a changing landscape of fancy houses, junkyards, suburbs and woods unscrolls on either side of them. Two football fields away, over Duley's shoulder, the blue jackstaff light marks the front end of 45 million lbs. of cargo that the boat they are on, the Michael J. Grainger, is pushing up the Ohio River. Black water purls gently off bargesides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Away, Roll Away | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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