The Trail of Tears (or how a bad hike turned into a valuable lesson)

It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way.  We’d only set out to hike a dozen gentle miles on a warm September day.  I never expected it to end up like something akin to the Bataan Death March, with me dehydrated and out of water, my body dangerously close to collapse as — twenty grueling ......

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