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The Dark Side

By Joe Atkins

Jackson Free Press | August 17, 2012

We were sitting around a picnic table at Stanley's Campgrounds outside of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., drinking beer and George Dickel, playing poker and telling tales when Richard walked over from a neighboring trailer.

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