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So here's the girl!
Rick couldn't help himself. The River of Passion, what a set up! He
sat down next to her to talk. Spanish was a second language to her as
well, a Mayan dialect being first. It turned out she was a highlander
whose family had come here to find land. Una despeida, her
circumstances were dire. As more and move highlanders have come here
to El Ceibal, a national park, the place has suffered great damage to
the forest, to the looted archaeological sites and to the loss of
habitat for the local fauna.
"I'm not ready to move here," Hillman said to himself. "And I can't take her home." So he took her picture and sighed. |