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This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this:

Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Jack, and I like piña coladas. (And gettin’ caught in the rain.)

…or something like this:

The XYZ Doohickey Company was founded in 1971, and has been providing quality doohickeys to the public ever since. Located in Gotham City, XYZ employs over 2,000 people and does all kinds of awesome things for the Gotham community.

As a new WordPress user, you should go to your dashboard to delete this page and create new pages for your content. Have fun!

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THE LAST THING WAYLON JENNINGS SAID TO BUDDY HOLLY WAS A JOKE. HE SPENT THE NEXT 43 YEARS LIVING WITH IT. He was born Wayland Jennings in Littlefield, Texas, in 1937. His mother later changed the spelling after someone asked whether the boy had been named after Wayland Baptist College. By fourteen, he was already working in radio. At sixteen, he left school. By 1958, Buddy Holly had hired the young West Texan to play bass. Then came the Winter Dance Party Tour. On February 2, 1959, the musicians arrived in Clear Lake, Iowa, exhausted from traveling through the freezing Midwest in an unreliable tour bus. Buddy chartered a small plane to fly ahead after the show. Waylon had a seat. But J.P. Richardson, known as the Big Bopper, was sick with the flu and asked if he could take it. Waylon agreed. Before they separated, Buddy joked, “I hope your old bus freezes up.” Waylon answered, “Well, I hope your old plane crashes.” Hours later, the plane went down less than six miles from the runway. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson were killed. Waylon was twenty-one. He knew it had only been a joke. But knowing that did not stop the words from following him. What came next was forty-three years of triumph and damage. Addiction that, at its worst, reportedly cost him $1,500 a day. A 1977 arrest. Heart bypass surgery in 1988. A marriage to Jessi Colter that nearly broke but survived. There were also ninety-six charting singles, sixteen No. 1 hits, the outlaw movement, the Highwaymen and a black hat that became one of country music’s most recognizable silhouettes. In October 2001, Waylon was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Diabetes had left him in too much pain to attend. Two months later, surgeons amputated his left foot. On February 13, 2002, Waylon Jennings died in his sleep at his home in Chandler, Arizona. He was sixty-four. Forty-three Februaries after giving away his seat on a small plane in Iowa, Waylon Jennings finally left the ground.