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Me, center, and Stuart Collins, right with the Mayor of Covington, GA in November 1976 The Lord has been good to me. He has blessed my life with friends who have known me since the cradle, Kindergarten, and a shared hometown. I've also lived in five different cities and towns, and He's blessed my life with great friends made during those stops. He's also blessed my life with people who came and went just for a quick season - a blink in time. Stuart Collins was one of the latter - here today and gone tomorrow - but make no mistake about it. He was my friend. You would have loved him. I met Stuart Collins in the Spring of 1975. We were both selected to serve as regional lieutenant governors for the Georgia Key Club organization. Key Club was a high school service organization sponsored by local Kiwanis clubs. At the time, both Key Club and Kiwanis Club were all-male. As state lieutenant governors, I represented a region in north Georgia; Stuart represented a regio