Fort Walsh National Historic Site, Saskatchewan
It was early June 1988. Twenty-year-old Pepper Baiij and her
twenty-two-year-old husband, Larry Velasco, were visiting the Fort Walsh
National Historic site in Saskatchewan. Pepper hoped to find an answer to the constant
unfulfilled feeling in her soul while on this trip. She and Larry both enjoyed
taking road trips, but where Larry seemed content to take things as they came,
Pepper longed for something more.
Pepper felt terribly irritable but was determined not to
lash out at Larry. Her poor husband tried so hard to make her happy. It wasn’t
his fault that her soul was a bottomless well that no ordinary man could ever
fill.
Pepper had been feeling nauseous nonstop from the time that
the couple crossed the border into Canada. She hoped that she wouldn’t spend
the whole trip sick. The relentless noonday sun only increased the queasiness.
Pepper stepped into the tall grass and vomited.
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