By MILLIE ROTHROCK | Staff
Billy Dunford spent the morning of his 57th birthday doing what he always did: packing up a sandwich and a soda – Dr Pepper was his favorite – and walking into Max Meadows. It wasn’t a very long trip, maybe a mile.
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