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Family, service dominate former Gov. Roy Barnes' home
Text: Rachel Pomerance; photo: Elissa Eubanks
For Roy, public service is a sacrifice demanded of everyone, whether that means volunteering at church or mentoring a child, he says. "Politics is an honorable profession, or it should be." These bookcases in his office are stacked with red leather-bound Georgia law books, and one of them hides a secret passageway to the hall leading to the master suite.