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Letter From The Desert: Private Things

Letter From The Desert: Private Things

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Chris Clarke
Sep 05, 2018
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There are mariposa lilies here, on this little glacier-carved ridge looking down on Donner Pass, sleeping through the dry late summer as corms in gravel. Someone coming upon us there for the first time might think they knew everything about the ridge, a gray knife’s edge curving toward the north, and yet not know that one afternoon three years ago the g…

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