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During the keynote address at the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 5, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee shared the story of overcoming crippling grief after the death of his first wife and the emotional experience of pardoning Jelly Roll.
Despite learning only the day before he’d been tapped to deliver the address, he gave a moving speech that touched on the July 2000 day his first wife, Carol Ann, died in a horseback riding accident…