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No taking flight without him

By Gordon Edes
Globe Staff / September 30, 2005

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Nice gesture, but a bit superfluous, isn't it, this business of naming a plane after David Ortiz, which he gets to see for the first time today at Logan. (Full article: 1037 words)

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