[eDave]

I was driving from Phoenix to KC a couple of years ago and picked up a hitch hiking couple just outside of Flagstaff. The guy had Elephantiasis and was on his way to Florida to die because of it and his last relative willing to help could help his girlfriend (who was pregnant) establish residency there, get a license and move forward. He also wanted to wrestle an Alligator and taught me how to do that and win. When I bought them some shoes, we had to get the biggest slides we could find and he still hung over both ends by a large margin.

He's dead now, didn't wrestle an alligator, and she is on her way with updates periodically and both she and the child are doing well. They each gave me a petrified rock they found when we stopped in New Mexico somewhere as a thank you and I have them prominently displayed in my primary display shelf. She played guitar in the back seat and it was awesome. Car smelled like homelessness for a bit though. ****ing Christ, the smell off those two, and their dog.