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Former staff photographer Art Miller took this photo on my first official day as editor of The Graham Star: Aug. 8, 2019. I wish 2023 me would go back and tell my 2019 self to be prepared for the onset of gray hair just 1 ½ years later; local elections director Teresa Garland told me after the fact that her first impression of meeting me was simple: “He’s just a kid.”
My 4-year anniversary over The Graham Star came and went without a single thread of recognition: no candle, no cake, not even an “attaboy.”
Oh, I thought of it, no doubt. “How on Earth … four years?…