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Heard Around the West

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ocelyn Gibbon has been a Colorado River guide in the Grand Canyon for 21 of her 41 years. When the inquired about the craziest question she’d ever been asked, she replied: “I have actually been asked that famous one about whether we’ll take out at the same place we put in.” Apparently, most tourists don’t expect rivers to actually go anywhere, no matter how fast they move — rather like modern life.

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