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Every Issue 10 Editor’s Corner
12 Publisher’s Note
15 Engaging Spirituality 18 Hot Finds 22 Local Artist 26 Dining Out 30 Fine Living
33 Inside Fayetteville
34 Grand galas Plenty of pomp but pumped up, too –
military formals are fancy occasions with a serious side.
38 The lives behind the lines For generations, the soldier’s story has been told in letters home. But historians
wonder: in this digital age, what will happen to the war letters of today?
45 Baby surge The stork has landed, and it’s still making deliveries. As thousands of soldiers
return home from deployments overseas, small packages follow nine months later. On the Cover 6|February/March • 2009 18
The mail at her house may be addressed to Rachel Sumja, but everyone calls her Bull Lee. She’s a mother, a military veteran, the wife of an Air Force pilot and founder of the Rogue Rollergirls, Fayetteville’s roller derby league. Read about the league and other “extreme” sports on Page 53.
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49 Local Business 53 Sports
58 Your health
60 Discover Our State 63 Money Matters 64 City Angel 66 Weddings
67 Seen at the Scene
