Downriver storyteller flips the page to a new chapter

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Downriver storyteller flips the page to a new chapter

Sometimes life has a way of pointing you in the right direction. As a high school student, our class was given an assignment to write our own obituaries. I didn’t fully understand it back then, but I came to realize it was an exercise to see what we hoped to accomplish in life. I had no idea why, but I saw myself as a newspaper columnist. I didn’t have a burning desire to pursue a writing career. My first inclination was to go to law school. Whi…