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Forged by Fire and Ice

  Fueled by a surplus of testosterone and a deficit of logic, a situation common to young male duck hunters, we headed out.   By M. Robbins Church   "Oh, what now? What's next?" I asked myself as I struggled late that December afternoon to line the canoe with Pete, our shotguns, and our single bird through the ice-cold rapids. The river was nearing the top of my waders, and my next steps were uncertain. It had been an eventful, frigid canoe hunt — and it wasn't done yet.   Early that ...

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