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Letter From the Desert: Deep Time I

Letter From the Desert: Deep Time I

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Chris Clarke
Aug 08, 2023
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Mt. Lassen and surround

Along the west Walker River, a boxy, two-story white clapboard house caught my peripheral vision, and until I turned to look straight at it it registered as a house I once lived in. That was startling. We moved away from that place in 1965, moved from a toddler’s paradise of dirt and snakes and water out in the county to a rented …

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