In June 2002, I interviewed Adam McGarity about the journey on which he was about to embark – a two-year stint in Romania with the Peace Corps.
I agreed to accept columns from him that would be published in the newspaper. Every couple of months I got a column in my e-mail that would tell of his wild experiences – witnessing a pig-slaying among them.
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