he explained. “She fell off a step and broke her leg the other night then dragged herself into her car and sat there all night. When I found her the next morning I asked her, 'Why didn't you yell or use the car horn to get my attention?'
"You know how she answered me? She said, 'I didn't want to run down the battery!" I just shook my head I have known people like that: they would rather die than ask for help. Even from their friends.
Now friend, you may think that I shouldn't be telling you about Orrie's secret of defense and I wouldn't be telling you his secrets if Orrie still lived. But, as we were nearing the end of the journey that this book documents, Connie Gates found us again and told us that not long after he came to see us with his gift of the pocketknife Orrie moved away from Goldfield, and he died two months later.
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