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It didn’t really need its wings at all. The cougar has to average over a dozen pounds of meat a day to survive a winter. He leafed through it: most of the pages were empty. In many ways, he was an odd duck, more Indian than I was, but not as Indian as his relatives on Red Lake or in the slums along Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis.

’“That was the last thing the women said to me. Anita had never talked to Rachel directly about Serge. ” He breathes and says, “You can’t win. “Whatever.