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Montgomery: Before his death from COVID-19, former state senator Larry Dixon spoke to his wife of 53 years from his hospital bed and asked her to relay a warning. “Sweetheart, we messed up. We just dropped our guard,” Dr. David Thrasher, a pulmonologist and friend of Dixon, recalled him saying. Dixon, 78, died Friday from complications of COVID-19. Thrasher said his longtime friend had been mostly careful but may have contracted the virus after gathering with friends. “Larry has been conscientious with masks, doing everything right, social distancing since March … he made one slip-up,” Thrasher said. Three people at the gathering became ill, he said. “The last thing he told her was, ‘Gaynell, I love you. We’ve got to tell people this is real,’ ” Thrasher said. He said he’s telling his friend’s story with the family’s permission in the hopes that people can learn just how easily the virus can spread at casual
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