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"Take a picture of the three battered bastards of Cerro el Capirote"

"And one battered bitch," added Loren, squeezing into the lineup

Rodgers got off three shots before the reporters took over

"Mr Pitt!" One of the TV interviewers pushed a microphone in front of his face "What can you tell us about the subterranean river?"

"Only that it exists," he answered smoothly, "and that it's very wet"

"How large would you say it is?"

He had to think a moment as he slipped his aruess about two-thirds the size of the Rio Grande"

"That big?"

"Easily"

"How do you feel after swiround caverns for over a hundred kilometers?"

Pitt was always irritated when a reporter asked how a mother or father felt after their house burned doith all their children inside, or hoitness felt atched someone fall from an airplane without a parachute

"Feel?" stated Pitt "Right now I feel that et to a bathroom"

HOMECOMING

November 4, 1998

San Felipe, Baja California