You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.” ...

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Nearly a decade to the day after Crystal Rogers disappeared from Bardstown, Kentucky, the man investigators have had their eye on since the beginning will have his day in court.