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Salon
Annie Waldman

The raw milkman

A white Ford pickup truck broke through a thick curtain of fog one morning in February, winding its way down a muddy farm road in California’s Central Valley. From it emerged a 64-year-old dairyman, burly and tan, who left the engine running as he lumbered toward me with open arms.

“You must be Mark,” I said, warning him I wasn’t one for hugging.

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