Page 14 of Rangers Mountain Rescue

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Toward the tavern.

Toward the quiet group of men who had helped a stranger without asking questions.

My husband had once told me something about men like that.

You don’t always recognize heroes when you meet them,he’d said.

Sometimes they’re just the guys sitting in the corner of a bar.

I exhaled slowly.

For the first time since moving here…

I didn’t feel quite so alone.

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