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Long before these children, with their contorted bodies and disordered brains, came to my tall-wooded shores, I lay here amidst the mountains. I cannot say that I waited for their arrival. Neither that first summer three decades ago, nor each subsequent summer.

Rather, after the uplift of metamorphic sediment from ancient seas, after eruptions of magma and showers of ash and flows of mud, after the grinding of glaciers in advance and retreat — after all this, each year I watched the wildflower fire of lupine and avalanche lilies, the distant migration of birds and the mating of mammals, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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