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David Pryor Took Time To Help This Young Reporter

Pryor and his love for Southern storytelling

Former U.S. Senator David Pryor (Screenshot from a video on the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History)

I wasn't going to write about the life and death of David Pryor.

So many reporters already have, and I thought who would want to read my story. I never covered Pryor's Arkansas political career because I was too young. I never worked on Capitol Hill. I didn't have lunch with him like some older journalists who recently wove their Pryor tales into print. I didn't think my tiny David Pryor story would matter.

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