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"Brr," Harp coot an aversion to it She was excited to see snow the first time, and then she was ready to hit the tropics But we’re still doing the Dino Smurf tour of the West So…

"It’s the Winter Solstice, Harper It’s like a big deal or so deal The Winter Solstice is soives a crap about It’s dark at four o’clock It’s freezing And it’s just… wrong"

"Hey, you knohat?"

"What?" she asks as we continue to cli out and watch the sunset"

"No, thank you," she laughs "I’, then we’re out of here"

When we finally get to the top Sasha is just standing there, looking over at the fenced-in area where the wheel is Should be

"You can’t see it," she says, disappointed "The snow is covering it all up"

"Fuck" I’ up the rocks

"You can see some of them, Sash," Harper says "Look, there’s the tip of one"

The round hundreds of years ago by the native people in this area It’s pretty crooked and if you ask ination on the best of days to see a wheel But even crooked squiggly lines of rocks are better than no rocks

"But you can’t see the spokes," Sasha says "I kneas stupid to come"

She was supposed to come here with her father for the last Su out at Merc’s desert house that night And her father was dead So yeah, that trip was canceled

And then she said she never wanted to come see it We’ve driven by this national forest dozens of ti dinosaurs But she refused to stop

Until I offered to bring her for the Winter Solstice

"Let’s go," Sasha says, turning around to head back down the hill to the truck "I’ her jacket as she passes me "We can make our own spokes Look" I walk over to the fence and step over it The snow is so high along the fence, that’s easy to do And then I walk out to the center of the circle and lie down in the snow "Coirls We’ll make our own spokes and watch the sunset"