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Doak Walker's children remember a father, not a legend

Doak Walker spent his final days in a bed in that extended-care facility, looking out the two windows in his room. One looked out over the top of a mountain; the other revealed the valley below. "I said, 'Look at that,'" Russ recalls telling his father. "And he said, 'Yeah, isn't it great, just to be home?'" Russ pauses and smiles just a little bit. "I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

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