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Day: October 29, 2019

Sixty Six Acres – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sixty Six Acres – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoOctober 29, 2019October 30, 2019

My high school football coach used to call his team “chiquitos pero picosos,” a Spanish term meaning “small but piquant” (like New  Mexico’s chiles). At 6’1” and a svelte 175 pounds in full uniform, I was the biggest guy on the team.  That made me an enforcer of sorts when players on the other teams tried to bully my smaller…

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