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Jan 1, 2023Liked by WanderFinder

Your tamales sent me into a reverie about the bean burritos, smothered in fragrant, roasted green chile sauce, which could be had at the Pojoaque Truck Stop. Alas, that meagre crossroads is now resplendent with garish casinos that insult the landscape.

By coincidence, I have been working on a passage in my novel in which the protagonist is taken on a scenic route. Here is a draft:

https://alanabramswriter.com/stories/the-dead-shall-be-his-own-an-excerpt/

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Jan 1, 2023Liked by WanderFinder

As someone who made a uturn to buy tamales off the side of the road in Las Vegas yesterday I totally get it. The best tamales are random.

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Jan 1, 2023Liked by WanderFinder

Happy New year! Enjoy your desert tea!

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Happy new year! I had tamales bought out of a kitchen window in east L.A. and they are worth the travel plans.

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hah! you caught me working on it...thanks for the kind words. And yes, I have a screenplay in mind for it... let's exchange email addresses via Janet.

PS--I hope you can come to the reading this evening at My Dead Aunt's Books...5pm...bring something to read!

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