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Letter From the Desert: Nipton, California

Letter From the Desert: Nipton, California

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Chris Clarke
Sep 18, 2019
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Letter From the Desert: Nipton, California
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I remember when I used to watch the mountains to the west. I would count the minutes as their shadow crept eastward along the valley floor. Nighthawks would swoop above the patch of fenced-in land behind my house. They would catch the handful of mosquitoes the desert could barely manage to summon after each monsoon.

I fed the feral cats for a while that…

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