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Archives – February 21, 2012
At McKeesport High School, Sonny was the news editor of The Red and Blue. During his fifteenth summer, Duane Michals found his way to Amarillo, Texas with Jimmy Connelly on a Greyhound bus. There they hitchhiked up to the Oklahoma panhandle to work on the wheat crops. Alas they were too small. Having received a scholarship from the University of Denver, Sonny who was then seventeen, ran away from home to Colorado.
Duane Michals
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