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publisher & Editor<br />
Tahya A. Dobbs<br />
CFO<br />
Kevin W. Dobbs<br />
Consulting editor<br />
Mary Ann Kirby<br />
Account Executives<br />
Dacia Durr Amis<br />
Karla Johnson<br />
Contributing Writers<br />
Camille Anding<br />
Dani Edmonson<br />
Mary Ann Kirby<br />
Leah Mitchener<br />
staff Photographer<br />
Othel Anding<br />
Administrative Assistant<br />
Alisha Floyd<br />
Special Projects Manager<br />
Brenda McCall<br />
Project Assistant<br />
Carrie Truhett<br />
Layout Design<br />
Daniel Thomas - 3dt<br />
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As soon as I figure out how 2017 zipped by so quickly, I’ll try and find time to give 2018 its deserving<br />
welcome. I stand amazed at time’s fleet-footedness and make new resolve to initiate needed adjustments<br />
to our fast-track lifestyle.<br />
Recently, Kevin and I visited a dear friend who played a positive role in our “newly-married” years.<br />
It was a heart-rending visit because our friend was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Her daughter,<br />
who has taken on the role as major caretaker, has made major adjustments in her own life to assume this<br />
mission. She shared how she had intentionally simplified her life in order to be near her mother and<br />
enjoy the dwindling moments while her mother still knows her.<br />
Life truly is fragile. Sometimes it takes a disease, accident, or lab report to<br />
realize just how fragile. Who knows what 2018 will write into our lives? I’m<br />
certainly not greeting the New Year with gloom or fear, but I do sense a great<br />
need to prioritize my time so that busy-ness doesn’t dictate life or suffocate it.<br />
Take time to read the great stories we have in this issue of Hometown Madison.<br />
It’s our intention at Hometown Magazines to make that time well spent!<br />
Happy New Year!<br />
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In this issue The Way We Were 8<br />
The Early Valentine 16<br />
I Love Us 26<br />
Special Agent-<br />
Special Man 30<br />
A Picture of Happiness 38<br />
Families First Canton 44<br />
That One Thing 54<br />
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