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When Christina Crabtree opened the large present last Christmas at her parents' home in Tyrone, she found a blanket.

Nice gift and all, considering it's a common offering to a college student. Then, she took a closer look.

"I spread it out and saw all the T-shirts," the 22-year-old Georgia State journalism major said. "I cried. Everybody cried."

Crabtree unfurled a quilt that had been made of Peachtree Road Race T-shirts worn by her late grandfather, William Bowen —- "Papa Billy," she called him —- a longtime Peachtree runner who died in 2006 at the age of 69. Bowen had run in about 17 Peachtrees and had passed on his love of the race to family members, she said.....

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