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Dan Bodine is a retired Justice of the Peace from Presidio County in far West Texas now living with his wife, Noemi, and teen daughter, Maiya, in El Paso. Previously he spent 20 years in Texas newspapers as a writer, editor, and later, weekly publisher, and earned many writing awards.</p>
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He is a veteran of the U.S Navy and earned a B.A. in Journalism from North Texas State University (now UNT), and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas at Arlington.</p>
