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This time the mother, in broken English,
began to explain. “A week ago, Cholo ran into
the road and was hit by a car. It didn’t kill him,
but he was badly hurt. His eyeball was popped
out and his skull was fractured. We could see
his brain! We knew he could not live, and so
my husband’s friend took him into the desert
and put him to sleep.”
Dr. Waddoups asked, “How did he put him
to sleep?”
She answered that he had shot Cholo five
times.
Dr. Waddoups commented, “He must not
have been a very good shot.”
“Oh no,” came the reply, “Cholo was
dead, and we buried him in a shallow grave.”
Dr. Waddoups was becoming more
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