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You could eat it, use it for shingles or to resole boots, for dry flooring in a tent, as shrapnel in a cannon or flak when dropped from a plane. When she asked tentatively if there were any photographs of her father her grandmother shook her head. He was pretty sure talking elephants would be suspicious. He had the Mexicans and he still always had a dog, looking lovingly up at him.

And the choices we have to make change too. ” She looked at him sharply. This was before the earthquake. Most were gone now, the water dried up and the birds flown.