EVELETH — Luke Gulbranson’s Eveleth-Gilbert Class of 2002 voted him “the most likely to be on the cover of GQ.”
Lo and behold, several years later, the Eveleth native did appear in an ad on the pages of the New York City-based men’s magazine.
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