"He sat at the bus stop on the main drag, Central, and smiled at me as I stepped up to wait for the city bus. He was quiet at first, but looked unafraid to look people in the eye way out here in the big city.

Downtown Phoenix, Arizona is pretty rough toward evening. A lot of strange types move around the street, but he sat there.

His features where finely chiseled, high cheekbones, narrow eyes that had laugh lines around the edges and his perfect teeth gleamed white in the evening light.

“Where are you from?”

“Shiprock,” I said, and he looked at me and smiled real big.

"I come from Tuba City, down by Moenkop, Washington. Went to school there in Tuba.”"

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