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When Howard Billiman came home from work each day to his family in Sawmill, Ariz., his young children ran to greet him, leaping into his arms and grabbing onto his legs, happy to have their father home. His daughter Maggie remembers that his denim jeans and thick work jacket were covered in yellow dust. It…

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