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Dry River

River of Doom Sad sight dry river, and twenty years ago it was three metre deep and had trout. We caught some with nets and, fried them on a small fire and felt like cavemen. Delicious fish meat we ate with our fingers. Every year I have seen the river getting smaller even in the winter when it rains irregularly, it is no more than a beck. There is no fish not even the skeleton of children caught by a wall of water, when it had been raining upland and into the river. Their father was arrested it was said he had killed the children, fed them to the pigs, but for a single button in the sty they sat him free. Terrible rumors every summer I see him walking along the dry river, muttering to himself trying to find his children

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Date: 8/23/2012 6:11:00 AM
Another set up for the final surprise. Really Jan I look forward every morning to reading a new one. I've been so lazy lately I've only been going to yours and then playing on-line scrabble. I think I'm in a slump, eh? love you, Kathy
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 8/23/2012 12:03:00 PM
thank you Kathy...I just got an email from India comparing the dry river with Indus in the future....It is so hot here can~t go out and play card on the computer

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