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Texas Country Reporter turns fifty in October 2022. Each week until then, we’ll share classic episodes from the show’s history and behind-the-scenes reflections from TCR’s creator and host, Bob Phillips. In the early days of Texas Country Reporter, our directive from the guys in the carpeted corner office at the TV station where I worked was to travel “roughly a hundred-mile radius from the television studio” in Dallas to gather our stories.All these years later, I can admit I fudged a bit on that hundred-mile radius thing and often went wherever in Texas I could find a good story. One of those trips took me all the way to South Padre Island, a distance of 566 miles. But I knew it would be worth it.The person I wanted so…

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