As I come off the phone, I am feeling pretty pleased with myself but my wife Bee has a question for me.

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That's a skip through a sun-dappled meadow compared with my brief, ignominious Bee foray.

CNN: The agony and ecstasy of the National Spelling Bee

I've known Pruitt for more than 20 years, since he was a young publisher of my hometown newspaper in central California, The Fresno Bee.

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Now like a good modern worker bee, I left fully prepared with my SIM card and the entire suite of Apple devices in tow.

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Ms. INARA GEORGE (The Bird and the Bee): (Singing) I put my hand up to my face.

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People ask me what it was like to win the National Spelling Bee, but I mostly remember the lights and flashbulbs of the press that followed my victory.

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