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“Of all the red-tailed hawks that have ever soared on a Texas breeze, only one gets to live in Charlie Alvis’s house, at least during the winter hunting season. ‘My bird has its own bedroom,’ said Alvis, a falconer who’s based in the unincorporated community of Porter, just beyond the northern outskirts of Houston.”
“Across the country, medical boards allow abusive doctors to keep seeing patients. And patients addicted to opioids keep going back.”
“It is a strange sort of alienation, when you make the life-changing decision to return home, only to suspect that you no longer belong.”
“On the day Chiamaka died, many mourned the loss of a bright physicist, some mourned the loss of a friend or family member, while others mourned for her husband and young son. Felix mourned for all of these reasons, but especially for Chiamaka and all the life she did not get to live.”
“Charismatic and ambitious, Mark Lamb embodies a new kind of Trump-era lawman.”
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