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Letter From the Desert: This Little Desert House

Letter From the Desert: This Little Desert House

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Chris Clarke
Jan 27, 2020
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Letter From the Desert: This Little Desert House
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In February, 2014, torrential rain hit Joshua Tree. The leak in the roof in the house I had been renting, that I had warned my then-landlord about for some months previous, blew open in a spray of wet plaster and fiberglass above my desk. It was time to move.

I hated the prospect, and not just because my relationship of record was disintegrating at the …

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