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Volume 46.1
Winter Spring
2015

 

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Grand Canyon

Tell your father not to do anything stupid, she tells me, and of course I go for the bait and tell her the stupidest thing I ever did was marry her mother. And then of course I feel stupid for shooting off my mouth and putting my daughter right in the middle where she's been most of her life.

whitewater
the paddle slips
my grip


by Tom Painting        

 

 

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