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"Mountain Girls."

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"People ask me where
I'm from, and I

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have no choice but to say
that I'm from the mountains.

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And then, depending
on the number

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of twitches per second I
can count on their face,

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I either lie and say I'm from
this mountain or that mountain

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in this or that state.

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The facial expression that leads
me to fess up and say I am from

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Awa're-zan, the mountain where
desperately starving young men

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would carry their old grandmas
on their backs and leave them

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deep in the woods
to wither and die,

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except that these old grandmas
developed their own community

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of mountain hags and managed to
live a grand old life burrowing

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into the mountainside only when
they were truly done with life,

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and not when some ungrateful,
unresourceful son had decided

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to get rid of them.

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And yeah, I'm one of those
girls that is actually

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a reborn mountain hag.

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Well, that facial expression
is quite wonderful and amazing,

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and I've yet to come
up with a name for it.

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What about you?

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Where are you from?"

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