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life for which we're all grateful.
But Dan is -- he's a lot of things to me. And as I sit here, you know, one name that really permeates this whole proceeding, and his son is here in court and he sits as a juror over there, but Sam Junior Favre. Now can you imagine what the conversation is between he and God right now. You know, if I were there, as Boyce would say, I'd be saying, "Bless me father for I have sinned." Sam Junior Favre is saying, "Rooster, can you imagine what's going on down there. Two of my distinguished alumni who I trained to be judges will be hung next to one another in the court that I practiced law in." And Sam always took great pride in the fact that he ran a judges school. He said, "By God, there wouldn't be a judge in this county if it hadn't been for me." He said, "I tried to get Ruble Griffin down here and work and train him, and look, he went off to be up at the Supreme Court. But anyway, we've had our real history of characters, and I think that the program lists all of them. They list our deceased members. And if you look back at
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