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  Springtime on campus at @texaschristianuniversity - pretending to be a college student again for a week really made me miss the glory days at @utaustintx

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  One year ago, Thomas and Ami Davis’ 3-month-old daughter Ellie died in the care of a licensed in-home day care facility in Frisco, Texas.  The cause of death was ruled as Sudden Unexplained Infant Death with possible positional asphyxiation, and investigators told them it was a tragic accident that could have happened in their own home.  The Davises don’t feel the day care facility was held accountable and are the subject of an investigative piece in today’s @statesman about Texas’ handling of day care facility deaths.

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  @dav_07 @sergio_mendez21 and @ernes2mtz went downtown to the @dallasnews Commerce Street headquarters yesterday to record a Spanish-only interview for Al Día reporter @jennymanriquec’s “Latinos Al Día” podcast. The podcast will be incorporated into a multi-platform bilingual publication of #TheTimeWeHaveHere coming in May. Stay tuned!

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  Dallas police officer Crystal Almeida, right, receives a hug from Chief U. Renee Hall before receiving the Theodore Roosevelt Police Award on Thursday, April 11, 2019. Almeida was shot in the face while making an arrest last year at a Northeast Dallas Home Depot - an incident in which her partner, Rogelio Santander, was shot and killed.

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  It was a beautiful night at the ballpark, and things started out well with a 3-run shot from @elvis_andrus1988, but the relief pitching fell apart as Oakland’s Khris Davis “khrushed” his league-leading 10th home run to put the A’s out front for good. Also, the Rangers paid tribute to Dirk with a “41” on the back of the mound.

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  Shooting an event at the Meyerson last night - found a familiar face @grayysmith #tjsoccerfamilia

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  Dinos at the Dallas Zoo!

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  Big Time Bryan Breaks 10 - with a devastating kick in the final 200 meters, TJ senior @bryan_castanedaa overtook the lead runner from Conrad to win the 3200m with a time of 9:55 (his first time to break 10 minutes!) at the district 11-5A meet today at Standridge Stadium in Carrollton. His first place finish earned him a spot in next week’s area meet. Way to go, Bryan! #ppbdi @tjpatriotscc

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  Couldn’t be prouder of this #tjsoccerfamilia - though the score didn’t come out as we hoped, what a cool opportunity to play your final TJ soccer game in this beautiful stadium in front of all your fans. It’s been such a joy to watch y’all over the past three years. We love you all and can’t wait to see what God has next for you. #yosilevoylevoyalatj ❤️ 💙

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  Saturday afternoon auto repairs

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  Brand new @universityofdallas president Dr. Thomas S. Hibbs is photographed today before being introduced to faculty and staff on the UD campus. Hibbs, a UD grad who most recently served as dean of the honors college and distinguished professor of philosophy at @bayloruniversity, has been praised for his commitment to the small Catholic university’s staunchly defended classical tradition.

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  Communing with the old tires and shopping carts at #springcreekforestpreserve

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  Saturday morning shenanigans

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  Watching our hoop dreams die as soon as they’re born at #marchmadness central with @thejakegreen @nikkitomlinsonla and @robertgreentx

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  early bird gets the worm... moon. The “super worm equinox moon” sets over Frog Fountain and the Brown-Lupton University Union at 7:45 a.m Thursday. The March full moon, known as a worm moon, was the last supermoon of 2019 and coincided with the vernal equinox.

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  #TJsoccer senior night - a full moon, a prom-posal, and a dramatic 1-0 win over Highland Park.

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  TCU groundskeeper Donald Blackshear waters newly blossomed tulips, which he himself planted back in December, on the students’ first day back from spring break on the @texaschristianuniversity campus in Fort Worth, Texas.  The school’s annual flower budget of nearly $50,000 is funded almost completely by the generous endowment of one woman.

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  @conferenceusa men’s and women’s basketball conference championship games last night at The Star in Frisco, Texas.

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  a cabin on the lake

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  Little camera on a big rig - a few more #bts pics from today’s shoot with @cmproductionsinc and @bnsfrailway in #kansascity

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  Working on a very cold and windy rail yard today in #kansascity

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  good to see these #TJsoccerfamilia alumni out at the game today @hugo_avina7 @deleon__11 @hinojosa_1 @chavez_kvn @loz_ma

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  spring break

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  Finally got to get out and shoot a little TJ soccer

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  Little Bro helping me make lunch #why

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  McWhorter girls are ready for summer ☀️

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  #workingfromhome

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  Spotted these books on my mom’s table. I admire her teachable spirit and willingness to be humbled and admit blind spots even in her “older” 😉age @cicimcwhorter (“The Gospel Comes With a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World” by Rosaria Butterfield - and “Insider Outsider: My Journey As a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All” by Bryan Loritts)

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  Strong showing from the @tvcdallas home group tonight to support TJ soccer

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  A Champion In the Parking Lot This afternoon, we took our 6-year-old daughter Ellie out for her third bike-riding lesson.  Just like her daddy, Ellie has to learn things the hard way and gets frustrated easily when success comes slowly.  So the tears were flowing.  We were close to throwing in the towel, when a big man in a pickup pulled up and rolled down the window.  I recognized Charles Haley immediately – we’ve built a surface-level friendship over the past 6 years through many Friday morning Starbucks run-ins – so I went over to say hi.  Within seconds, he was out of his truck and on his way over to lift Ellie’s spirits.  Of course she had no idea she was getting a pep talk from an NFL Hall of Fame defensive end with five Super Bowl rings! Three takeaways from this encounter: First: anyone who follows football knows that the rap on Charles Haley the player was always – “difficult teammate, a coach’s nightmare, toxic locker room presence, etc.”, so it was cool to see him be so gentle and encouraging with my young daughter. Second: I love that a little North Dallas white girl like Ellie is growing up with several black men in her life – like @marc_wilson2 and @mrbigmark98 – who she looks up to and learns from on a daily basis.  Today was another opportunity to reinforce that. Third: it was good and humbling for me, as Ellie’s dad and a fellow prideful perfectionist, to see someone else step in with a totally different style and approach and get through to Ellie in a way I never could.

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  when you’re supposed to be cleaning out boxes, but you’re sitting on the floor getting a first-hand education on 20th century US history and DFW journalism.

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  For each of the past 3 years, I’ve had the privilege of producing visual stories for @tjyounglives, a beautiful ministry that cares for teen mothers at Thomas Jefferson High School and W.T. White High School in Dallas.  This year’s piece tells the story of four moms – two of them leaders, two of them teen moms – who all gave birth to baby boys on 4 consecutive days in November 2017.  It’s a story of four women from widely divergent backgrounds brought together by the common bond of motherhood and the ministry of @tjyounglives. See link in bio for video.

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  Clara being Clara

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  Happy Birthday, Bryan Gamez! @ernes2mtz - I’m thankful I know you. #TheTimeWeHaveHere

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  Ten years ago today, I walked up to a 13-year-old kid (although he told me he was 15😂) sitting on a park bench and asked if I could record an interview with him.  Although I only knew him for 14 months before he was killed in a car accident on Highway 290, my relationship with Christian Martinez, his friends and his family has changed me forever.  He taught me that it’s best to listen first and resist the impulse to “fix” someone.  He taught me that everyone has a backstory, and that a kid who kicks down doors and robs houses can also snuggle with his little sister and sing Justin Bieber’s “Baby” in the shower. He taught me that documentary photography requires perseverance, time, a sense of humor, but most of all humility. At 22 years old, I know I approached the Booker T community with a heavy dose of arrogance; and Christian – a leader and gatekeeper even at his young age – was gracious enough to overlook my “talking” shoes and “microphone-shaped” hair, and let me in. @babyyleen and Maricela, thank you for sharing your son and brother with me and letting me be a friend of your family. (see link in my bio for Christian’s full story - #TheBoysOfBookerT)

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  It’s been kinda nice to enjoy this TJ soccer season as just a fan with my kids and @villagechurchtx family while not worrying about documenting every moment. Tonight was awesome with temperate weather, a 3-0 TJ victory, and special guest appearances by @ernes2mtz, @wscottcheney and our new pastor @sheasumlin

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  a large piece of mangled steel from the WTC on display at the @fwmsh

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  Swipe 👈🏻 - We’ve been leading this @tvcdallas home group for over 6 years, and I think tonight might have been our biggest group since 2013. We’re thankful to see this new living room full of people wanting to know God and each other more deeply. Especially thankful to have you TJ kids with us tonight! (not pictured: @briannemdentel and Paul Dentel who were faithfully serving on kid duty upstairs) #gospelcenteredcommunity #pp - @maryelise_morrill @drewmorrill @joshlagunez @andreasix @danielleon1979 @dav_07 @___aj.____ @jayygutierrezz @lissagalvan_ @susannacarrera @melmegd #thewolvecks @kemcwh @rebeccacheney @wscottcheney

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  Praying for a speedy recovery for this soldier @oz.denilson @tjva9048 #aclsurgery #comingbackstronger

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  Alliance Switch Yard - Haslet, TX - if you’ve ever bought anything in Dallas-Fort Worth, it probably came through here. - shot for @cmproductionsinc

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  Although the games didn’t go as we had hoped, Little Bro enjoyed the sunnier weather on Saturday (and met his new redheaded brother @edyguiza29). #TheTimeWeHaveHere

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  Well the father-son trip got off to an interesting start, but baby puke and rainy weather ain’t gonna bring us down. Love seeing this new team come together. Also, as I was standing in the rainy parking lot watching the players load onto the vans, I met a new varsity player named Michael. I asked him if he’d watched the video, and he said he had and that he could relate. He’s from Honduras. His father was in a gang and told his mom if she ever had a son, he’d leave the gang. When Michael was born, he tried to get out, which naturally put the family in danger. When Michael was 6, his mom left all her family in Honduras, knowing she’d likely never see them again, and brought her son to the US. “She gave up everything she had just for me,” Michael told me. After dinner, I met two more new players, Roberto from El Salvador and Eddie from Honduras. “I have the same history,” Roberto told me. There are as many stories as there are kids. #TheTimeWeHaveHere (I’m going iPhone only this trip to keep my hands free for little bro.)

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  Headed off on a little father-son road trip to see our TJ soccer boys in the Governor’s Elite Cup in Georgetown, Texas.

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  Today all the freshman English classes at Thomas Jefferson High School watched #TheTimeWeHaveHere, discussed it together and wrote responses. I’m honored that the TJ teachers chose to make time for this and excited to see the project inspiring valuable conversations in the community whose story it tells. (see full video and photo essay at link in bio). 📷:@tjpatriotscc

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  Mama went to visit the new baby cousin in Austin, so went for a little mud hike in Cedar Mountain Nature Preserve

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  Bet you didn’t know there was a national championship game today in Frisco... North Dakota State beat Eastern Washington for their seventh FCS (formerly Division II) football title in eight years. I bet there’s a few FCS teams thinking maybe it’s time they leveled up.

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  Tryouts - #TheTimeWeHaveHere - see link in bio for multimedia and full photo essay

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  We’ve been smelling smoke in our bedroom every time we have a fire in the fireplace, so Kelly called a chimney sweep to come have a look at it. When I opened the door at 8:30 a.m. and saw this guy standing there speaking in a British accent, I knew I wasn’t gonna let him leave without asking for a couple quick portraits. Thankfully he obliged. And now Kelly and the girls have appropriately headed out to see the new Mary Poppins movie. (also, the background in the first picture is the cloth he laid down on the hearth to keep things clean)

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  Feliz cumpleaños, Cesar! We love you and are proud of you! @dav_07 #TheTimeWeHaveHere - How cool is it this kid was born on the first day of a new millennium?!

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  Fellow Longhorns, we saw this guy in our front yard this morning. I think a Sugar Bowl victory tonight is all but guaranteed. #utalbinosquirrel 🤘🏻🐂

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  Ringing in the new year with a little Pictionary and taco soup with @susannacarrera, Danny, @leeannaleon, @___aj.____ , @dav_07, and @rojas.sofiaa

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  Clemson whips Notre Dame 30-3 in the Cotton Bowl, earning themselves an unenviable date with the Crimson Tide next Monday.

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  #thebirds #nwdallas

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  Brandon Avila, Gerardo Arrellano, Eduardo Flores, Orbelin Carachure and Juan Romano pack into an elevator immediately after arriving at a hotel for an out-of-town tournament on January 11, 2018 in Georgetown, Texas.  The trip, for which the team raised money, was the first time some of the high schoolers had ever slept in a hotel. - #TheTimeWeHaveHere – see link in bio for full video and photo essay

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  Cookie decorating with Ellie’s @wdcschool classmates

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  "I know there's laws in place and the reason why the laws are in place, but I can't fault anybody for being in that situation. Because I would do the same thing, in my opinion." – Coach Mark Wolveck - Thomas Jefferson soccer players Antonio De Leon, Hugo Avina and Juan Romano, left to right, shave coach Mark Wolveck's head after being named district champions on March 26, 2018. - #TheTimeWeHaveHere - see link in bio for full video and photo essay

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  “Some kids don’t know what family really is because their parents may have stayed in Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, wherever they came from; so here on the team, that’s where they find family.” - One of my favorite things about photographing these guys is the way they unashamedly show physical affection for each other. They play the game and live their lives with a unique zeal - their hearts always boldly on their sleeves.  Tears come easily and a shoulder to cry on is never far away.  It’s often brought to mind 2 Corinthians 1:4 that talks about “comforting others with the comfort we ourselves have received.” - #TheTimeWeHaveHere *see link in bio for full video and photo essay*

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  “We’re here at TJ to learn and stuff like that, but after school, that’s when the real work for us begins.” - Fernando Nuñez fixes rims at Canales Wheel Repair. Orberlin Carachure digs tunnels under houses for plumbing repairs. Juan Romano grinds granite countertops. Bryan Gamez works in the kitchen at Wabi House. - #TheTimeWeHaveHere - *see link in bio for full video and photo essay*

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  Cesar Escobar, who emigrated from Honduras as an unaccompanied minor to escape gang violence in 2015, jogs with his girlfriend Andrea "A.J." Juarez over spring break on March 12, 2018 in Northwest Dallas. - This photo was taken 500 yards from my front door.  TJ is 1.6 miles from my house.  Almost every single player on the TJ soccer team lives within two miles of us.  From the very beginning, this has been, at its heart, a story about my neighborhood.  These guys are our neighbors, and they’re worth getting to know. - Having kept this project fairly private for over a year, I now plan to publish some of my favorites on here from time to time. - #TheTimeWeHaveHere – See link in bio for full video and photo essay

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  Bryan Gamez, a Salvadoran asylum-seeker and senior soccer player at Thomas Jefferson High School, reflects after learning of his mother’s deportation order. #TheTimeWeHaveHere • see link in bio for full video and photo essay •

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  • CLICK LINK IN BIO FOR FULL VIDEO AND PHOTO ESSAY • - As Americans have spent the past year churning endlessly through fraught discussions of border walls, caravans, family separation, and MS-13, the soccer players at Thomas Jefferson High School – all of them Hispanic, many of them immigrants – have lived their normal high school lives filled with nervous tryouts, crappy fast food jobs, new shoes, new girlfriends, and an ever-hopeful eye on the future.  Some of them are DACA recipients, some asylum-seekers, some are on track to gain residency status soon.  But no one really talks about who has papers and who doesn’t.  They don’t watch the news or listen to NPR - “It makes my mom worry,” Cesar says.  But the questions are always there, somewhere tucked behind the latest Snapchat sensation or Ozuna hit song:  What will the judge say at my next court appearance?  Will my dad make it home tonight?  Should I tell my girlfriend I might be gone next month? Most of the guys are happy to watch their unsettled lives south of the border and their treacherous journeys north fade hazily into the rear view mirror.  Their gaze is on the future and the promise of what might be in the land of opportunity.  But it’s a clouded gaze.  And the past doesn’t fade as easily as they’d like. #TheTimeWeHaveHere

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  For the past year, I have been working on a documentary photography project about the soccer players of Thomas Jefferson High School, which sits 2 miles east of my house, and their lives as Hispanic immigrants in the US.  Many of you have kindly listened to me talk about it for months and have often asked what I am going to do with it and when it will be made public.  Well, tomorrow is the day. I am excited to begin sharing the 11-minute multimedia piece and 32-picture captioned photo essay here and on my website.  Before I do so I want to extend heartfelt recognition and thanks… - first to my wife @kemcwh for encouraging me, challenging me, checking my priorities and motives, listening patiently to me, giving thoughtful feedback and allowing me to devote a lot of extra time to this project. - second to Bryan Gamez @ernes2mtz, Cesar Escobar @dav_07, Juan Romano @jromanoo10, Orberlin Carachure @c.orbelin10, Sophie Rojas @rojas.sofiaa, Andrea “AJ” Juarez @___aj.____, and all the other TJ kids who honestly and directly shared their stories while graciously allowing me to follow them around for a year. - thirdly to Coach Mark Wolveck, Principal Sandi Massey and Athletic Director Kenny Jones for allowing and supporting this project. - and finally to Michael Hamtil @mhamtil – a brilliant photo editor and good friend who graciously gave hours of his time over the past year to guide, listen, review, advise and help edit this project. #TheTimeWeHaveHere

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  The third annual Davestravaganza complete with a very tasty Christmas feast by @kemcwh

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  Remembering Ronnie Smith, who was killed five years ago today in Libya. He was a dear mentor of mine in college and officiated our wedding in 2010. Our son, Nathan Ronnie McWhorter, is named to honor his legacy. My hope for Nathan (and myself!) is that he will, like Ronnie, always consider the unseen eternal things of infinitely greater value than the transient material ones.

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  It always hurts to see the Horns lose to OU, but I was thankful just to be there. Great game all around. 🤘🏻

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  Festival at the Switchyard

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  Sweet big sis Ellie #thirdparent

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  Our last day in Colorado - we were happy to trade Black Friday for White Friday!

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  Exploring a frozen lake and sledding in the San Juan National Forest. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

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  Riding the “Polar Express” on the @dsngrr in Durango, Colorado.

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  Never seen anyone play the game with a greater combination of talent, toughness and joy. Trips to the ballpark will always be a little less fun now. Congrats on an amazing career! #ThankYouAB

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  A long and beautiful day with the whole family in Colorado

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  Hesperus, Colorado - we made it!