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<p align="center"><em>&ldquo;Made sweet memories of friends from the past&hellip;&rdquo;</em></p>
<p>Dateline: My First&nbsp;Bassmaster Classic</p>
<p align="center">&ldquo;The past is never dead, it is not even past.&rdquo;<br />
<span style="line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">William Faulkner</span></p>
<p>I was a Carp, at an all Bass tournament.</p>
<p>And the all Bass tournament was the 2008 Bassmaster Classic on Lake Hartwell.</p>
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                    <p>Don Barone reflects on his return to the site of the first Classic he covered at Lake Hartwell and what he's learned in the intervening seven years.&nbsp;</p>
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