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A few months ago, I succumbed to the fantasy of a virtuously decluttered house and attempted to clean out my overstuffed abode. While sorting through a pile of ancient files—reading lots and throwing away little—I unearthed a story I’d written while I was a graduate student at the University of Texas in 1975. The accompanying photograph instantly whisked me back almost fifty years.It was a crisp, almost chilly day in early fall in South Texas in those prelapsarian times when we Texans regularly had crisp days in early fall. My group was seated on the dry, sandy dirt of the La Moca Ranch near Encinal, about thirty miles north of the Mexican border. The smell of skirt steak being grilled for fajitas by the cowboys…

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