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Five days with my mom |
Drive to dinner from my Mom's apartment 
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The first of too many meals... 
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Breakfast on our way to Sante Fe 
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Stopping to harvest some Cottonwood root 
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Can you find the spider? 
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Battleship Rock it's called. I liken it to the rock "keel" of Minas Tirith 
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We reached the crest of the mountain just after a snowfall 
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It really was a beautiful and fun drive 
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The temp seemed to drop about five degrees every hundred feet we'd climb 
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Ancient ruins nestled in a sheltering and warm valley 
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ruins... 
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A holy place 
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The church at Chimayo 
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Many miracles are claimed to occur here 
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My great-grandfather's headstone 
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Welcome to Sante Fe 
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We stayed at the El Rey, a cozy oasis 
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We are art aficionados, taken very seriously 
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I asked for her number, but she was the silent type 
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My mom posing with a real artist, Frank Anderson 
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Mexican hot chocolate is the BEST! 
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I met Shadowfax 
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I fed shadowfax 
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Dostoyevsky revered Pushkin 
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New Mexico turquoise blue 
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My final New Mexico sunset 
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I love you, Mom. 
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