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Willie Nelson Hits Springfield

Phil Sutcliffe, unpublished, 2001

IT’S LONG PAST midnight at the Springfield, Illinois, State Fairground. Heavy rain slants down, dousing the day’s tangled aromas of corn dog, funnel cake and horse dung. Everything’s shut down.

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