Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Seventeen

1997: New Mexico- Sentimental Appeal

They were very young.

She was beautiful and Navajo and angry about all the right things.
She had a scholarship, she was going to be a doctor, she loved children.
He was his mother's only son, and they were poor, but stubborn about it.
He ran barefoot at first, but after the scouts spotted him, he ran in off-brand New Balances.
He first developed symptoms on the way to her funeral.

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