sam was feeling cryptic . experience told me this would be a short call i said ," that;s 's where you are now ?"
"no. i'm halfway to LA . got some news . want to hear it ?"
"i'd love to hear what you thought of las vehgas ."
he ignored me ."i'd never given much thought to the grand canyon before i got there . i fingure d it wass the result of some grnd cataclysmic event .the earthquake of all the earthquaks . the fault of all faults . a geplogic super bowl , that kind of thing . but it was just erosion . water on stone for a gazillion years . life going by , drop by drop . rain , floods . lots of floodss . but no major dramma . hard to image when you're standing there on zthe rim looking down at the biggest damn gash in the entire planet , but ..... it was all just erosion ."
i wondered where he was going ." yeah ?"
" you and me ? i thin we've developed a tendency lately to look fro drama . that's what i'm saying ."
"this is a metaphor ?" i said ." we should be looking for erosion ?"
"be open -minded . you're supposed to be open mminded . you want my news ?"
"please ."
"nothing earthshaking fronm grand canyon " - he laughed at his own oun -" but there's a lot to the investigatioj of that girl's dis appearance that never made it into any of the newspapers ." he said .
" tell me ," i said . i found myself settling in , awaiting sam's story the way that i liked to sink into the sofa on friday night with lauren as we got ready for along anticipated DVD .
sam had sent less than a ful l day at the north rim .
he had a way with people . although he was big enough and tough enough to be physically intimidating when he felt it was in his best interest , he was also capable of using his solid prairie roots and intuition about people to charm strangers .
"aren't that many people who have gone permanently misssing at the grand canyon ," he said as prelude ." that was another revel tion.
"no. i'm halfway to LA . got some news . want to hear it ?"
"i'd love to hear what you thought of las vehgas ."
he ignored me ."i'd never given much thought to the grand canyon before i got there . i fingure d it wass the result of some grnd cataclysmic event .the earthquake of all the earthquaks . the fault of all faults . a geplogic super bowl , that kind of thing . but it was just erosion . water on stone for a gazillion years . life going by , drop by drop . rain , floods . lots of floodss . but no major dramma . hard to image when you're standing there on zthe rim looking down at the biggest damn gash in the entire planet , but ..... it was all just erosion ."
i wondered where he was going ." yeah ?"
" you and me ? i thin we've developed a tendency lately to look fro drama . that's what i'm saying ."
"this is a metaphor ?" i said ." we should be looking for erosion ?"
"be open -minded . you're supposed to be open mminded . you want my news ?"
"please ."
"nothing earthshaking fronm grand canyon " - he laughed at his own oun -" but there's a lot to the investigatioj of that girl's dis appearance that never made it into any of the newspapers ." he said .
" tell me ," i said . i found myself settling in , awaiting sam's story the way that i liked to sink into the sofa on friday night with lauren as we got ready for along anticipated DVD .
sam had sent less than a ful l day at the north rim .
he had a way with people . although he was big enough and tough enough to be physically intimidating when he felt it was in his best interest , he was also capable of using his solid prairie roots and intuition about people to charm strangers .
"aren't that many people who have gone permanently misssing at the grand canyon ," he said as prelude ." that was another revel tion.
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