Only $8,000 of Gore Jr.’s total salary is guaranteed, meaning that if he is cut, as Buscaglia predicts, that rather paltry amount is all he will see. “The Bills don’t have much mystery ...

You could barely see the ground through this wall of buffalo grass. But step by step, mower by mower, it became a backyard again. This is grass cutting at its most satisfying.

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