"We were in fear for our lives, " says Deuce owner Richard Hennig, a 6-foot-6 machine-shop owner who doesn't look as if he needs to be afraid of anything.

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"I don't think there's anything to be afraid of, but families need to think it through, " says Ann Wrixon, executive director of the Independent Adoption Center, a nonprofit agency that Ms. Edwards and Mr. Cargle used.

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Now, they're both just a couple of wiseacres who evidently aren't afraid of dying because it's impossible for anything to kill them.

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They were so afraid that if they didn't do anything the economy might collapse, that they just sort of said, you know, I'm going to hold my nose and vote for this.

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