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HANABA MUNN WELCH

Keen truth from a poetic song

The road goes on forever, and the party never ends.

You’ve heard that line from Robert Earl Keen’s classic song. Maybe you know all the lyrics. I didn’t previously. Call me illiterate. But I just now read every verse. Let’s just say I was late to the party. Wow! What a story!

Nope, all I knew before was Keen’s recurring famous line. Two lines, really. An…