first section i will read from his from when i was a child, and it is the first time i rode out to stanley lake lake near our house, which is currently contaminated with plutonium in the sediment of the lake. but we do not know at the time. the first time i rode my horse to the lake, the wind whipped my hair across my face that it stung. my horse is eager to ride. i rode bareback. the rings were taunted and his head was arched like a roman horse. he prances and incense. let's run, let's run. he can gather himself into a low rolling cannonball. i am crouched low and not hang on. maximum contact, minimum control. i am alone. that is the best part to be alone with a horse in the gently rolling hills and wind bending the tall prairie grass into ripples of gold. i try to make talk calmly, about what happens to young writers whose galloping can snap is easy as a foreigner tree branch. there is no remedy but a bullet to the head. there are hundreds and thousands of potentially mounds and bumps. but my horse dislikes caution. he knows when we will be past the houses and roads, but will drop the reins a

that stanley lake water table. that family has been very, very ill. it is certainly one of the strongest people i've ever met. it was just remarkable working wither, witsok foatel h 9th brain tumor. it's remarkable she has survived. she was given six months, b, you know, she's really survived. the very first reading i did from this book in colado a coup nigo, hti lye. e itatoem a lot of other families like hers who stories have not been told that finally someone is talking about the stories and letting people know, and i certainly have been getting hundreds of e-mailsrom people cadpe gup whew up or live near other facilities, you know, hamford, here, and we got back from the riverside. it's the same thing. not just in the united states. there was asist ci sooc ats cedya they were doing the same thing there that we were doing at rocky flats, and they had very, very silar issues with contamination iidents, and that sort of thing in t same time period. the intereing ing to m i d sat ie , lelin russia near the mayak plant were more aware of what was happe