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diapers.” The Do?a scowled at Norma brieflyand one of the Altheas laughed from the kitchen.
Mr. Hunt smiled and looked concerned. “When did your family come to this country?”
The Do?a said something to the effect that her family had been on this land before the Gringos took
over and started calling it America. The prospectors came and mined out the damn goldand the Black
Mountain company mined out the damn copperand then they fired all the men and sent them home to
plant treesand nownaturallythey were pissing in the river and poisoning the orchards.
Mrs. Galvez paused. “A long time ago” she said.
Mr. Hunt lost his composure for the first time. He made an oddguttural noise and looked at Mrs.
Galvezwho spread her hands.
“You want an exact translation?”
“Please.”
She gave it to him.
It wasn’t the afternoon anybody had expected. Malcolm Hunt kept adjusting his posture and his
eyebrows and appearing to start the whole interview overframing new questions that sounded like
opening lines.
“The Black Mountain Mining Company is polluting―and now actually diverting―the river that has been
the lifeblood of this town for centuries. Why is this happening?”
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