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It's been this way always. Several cowboys rode up and began to fish their bedrolls out of the muddy water. It comes out of the same mountains as the Rio Grande, Call said. You don't need to stay, she said.

Lorena still had not spoken. It was a battle she wouldn't give up on: every winter she read seed catalogues with the girls and described to them the flowers they would have when spring came. What are we going to do, now that we're here? Lippy asked. There was nothing to do about death, but Elmira was alive.