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“Oh, baby, I’m gonna love you forever/ Forever and ever, amen” – as sung by Randy Travis.

When I was a second-grader, I was fascinated by the short-lived ABC sitcom “The Second Hundred Years.”

In the far-fetched program, Monte Markham played a 33-year-old Alaskan “gold rush” prospector who was buried in a glacial avalanche and preserved in suspended animation for 67 years.

After the character was thawed out, high jinks ensued as the vigorous prospector (now seemingly half the age of his own son) navigated the cultural/technological changes he had slept through.

Flash-forward (mumble mumble) decades, and that American institution, the Grand Ole Opry, is on the brink of the milestone the prospector hoped to explore.

Yes, after the big 100th

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