The Trouble with Heroes
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half of history was tied up in stuff that got erased from our books as if it never happened at all.
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Wright, Algonquin, and Iroquois (A found poem from the AllTrails reviews) Slick flat slab. Why so steep? Roots to grab. Mud, knee-deep.   Bug bites, blood. Narrow path. Grueling mud. (Need a bath.)   Climbing up. Wrong turn. Tired pup. Sunburn.   Path too narrow. Scratched-up knees. Wrong-way arrow through the trees.   So confused. Blazing sun. Gorgeous views. Finally done.
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but if they had a medal for politely listening to somebody blabbing about beech leaves and birch bark and blackbirds and beavers and blah-blah-blah butterfly,
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Heroes with capital H’s die in Tragedies with capital T’s.
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scrambling, slogging through bogs, Sam and I summit the mountain called Seymour
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There’s no good path— just a bad way and a worse way— so you might as well choose one and get started.
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Can You Be Addicted to Being a Hero? You can only test a person’s blood for chemicals and stuff— not for what they’re thinking.