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GRINGO GRATITUDE

Wow! I just read Mike Ferrentino’s “Gringo Syndrome” column (Grimy Handshake, July 2017) this morning. In my opinion, it is the most important thing has ever published, and I have been a reader for over 20 years. Not only that, but it also contained the most important sentence you have ever published: “But—here is the painful bit—we are all dicks out on the trail.” Ouch! Mike put a mirror in front of us. should print that on a decal that we could stick inside our helmets, our dashboards and

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