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stuff I wrote elsewhere: “a forlorn-looking river”

Posted by jfleck on 12 March 2013, 8:35 pm

On a road trip to southern New Mexico to report on drought:

“That’s a forlorn-looking river, isn’t it,” Phil King told me as we walked out on Mesilla Dam this afternoon, looking down at the bed of sand where the Rio Grande is supposed to be.

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