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Learning to Give Up the Reins

By Gretel Ehrlich
Published March 9, 2005 at 11:00 PM CST

Commentator Gretel Ehrlich, author of The Solace of Open Spaces, recalls learning about herself from a colt — the colt she was supposed to be training.

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