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 Sarah's
sister Rebecca--such biblical names! I wonder what the good book says about
water. Will the beast of Revelation come to pollute it? Won't He be disappointed
to find we've beaten him to it, Cuyahoga River aflame and no place safe to
drink. Last summer Rebecca worked for West Virginia Forest Service, following
old logging roads into woods after substitute DJ stint on local morning radio
gospel hour, dipping test tubes into rivers silty with runoff from overlogged
hills whose faces wore worry lines of erosion. Another summer she worked
in the mountains, which the doctor said improved her vision because she focused
on such a great distance. Back at rural home for Christmas where as a child
they wouldn't flush for days when the well was low, rinsed plastic bags are
set up to dry, a family tradition, arranged like beasts in a
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