A party is always going on at Larimer Square. Maybe that’s why somebody just handed me a shot of tequila. Oh, well, when in Denver.... When I first visited Denver, Colorado, in the 1980s, I found it an ugly, dirty, rough city with a dying downtown, which had me thinking: Why does Denver even exist? When it was founded, the town had no road, no railroad, no lake, nothing anyone could legitimately call a river. Nothing here but some gold. That was enough to start Denver. Actually, this a


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