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The weather report says low air quality. On the east side of the mountain, we bicker about the mundane: what’s for dinner, who’ll take out the garbage, why the Internet stopped working. We learn too late that the wind shifted, that the cell towers and more are in the way.
Larina Warnock is an educator in Oregon where she lives with her husband, three dogs, and a turtle older than she is.