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California Zephyr heading into Union Station

The sun just started to edge up over the horizon after we passed Fort Morgan: The California Zephyr is running an hour or so late, but the miracle is that it's going at all, after the mess the snowstorm made of the East Coast...
By Patricia Calhoun
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The sun just started to edge up over the horizon after we passed Fort Morgan: The California Zephyr is running an hour or so late, but the miracle is that it’s going at all, after the mess the snowstorm made of the East Coast.

That means the California woman sitting across the way, who’d hoped to be able to visit the Tattered Cover during the stop at Union Station, won’t be able to see the legendary store this trip.

“Next time,” she promises, “I’ll spend the night in Denver. Is there anything else to see there?”

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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