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A young mother glances up from her phone screen for her child, moved by some internal awareness and a too-quiet pall, and leans to scan around the kiosk of body lotions and Christmas bows and its bored, stool-perched employee, for her kid. But the dark-haired boy is around, in his Spider-Man pandemic mask, hiding behind a giant Kusama-looking tree ornament three times his size. The few milling shoppers here, braving the worst days of the pandemic so far, show diversity and color, they are thick and thin, holding hands or pushing a wheelchair. An up-to-the-moment barker, a kind of shopping-mall goddess, offers chocolate to lure a shopper into a jeweler. ....
We were looking for fossils on sharky williams and his brother maurice williams ranch and finding some pretty cool stuff, and we get up on august 12, look outside the tent, and it s foggy. it s kind of a weird thing to have fog on the prairie. so we got kind of a little bit later start. we weren t in any big hurry, because you couldn t see very well, and then went out to start loading up the suburban. we have a 1975 suburban all rusted out. and i look, and the tire s flat. so i say, oh, crap. well, almost flat. still had a little bit of air in it. so i go in the back to get the spare tire, and the spare tire s flat, so i pull out the tire pump, and the tire pump hose is broken. so we figure, i guess we better head into town while we still have enough air in the tire to get there. we decided, well, we re gonna have to go to town. i d been out there for four of five weeks. going to town, that s okay. i can take it easy for half an hour, an hour. that s fine with me, but of course, ....
We were just finishing up doing stuff, and susan comes up. and she opens her hand, and she s got two pretty small pieces of bone, only about this big, in her hand. and i d never seen the inside of a t. rex vertebra before, but i knew exactly that was what she had in her hand, and i says, is there more of it? she said, there s a lot more. so we ran, literally ran back to the site. crawl up on the cliff face, and i see three articulated vertebrae, and from that point on, i m absolutely certain this is going to be the best thing we ever found and it s going to be a complete t. rex. he called up and said, neal, i need you to bring a lot of plaster two-by-fours. well, it took me a day to get everything ready, and i came up, and i got up there with all these materials, and he took me over to this big cliff, and he said, take a look. and i looked at it, and i looked at him. i said, is that t. rex? he said, yes, and i think it s all here. and we haven t started digging or haven t ....
Old, and that light left there maybe at the same time that you re looking. it s just you re kind of sandwiched in that world, and it s really really a wonderful place, being out in the field. it was a brilliant story, i mean, if you didn t have to live it, like the larsons did. it s a good american tale. unfortunately, it had a bad ending for a couple real brilliant paleontologists. what does that white line mean, susan? we d been digging at the ruth mason quarry since 1979. ....