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...leasant distraction of the conversation, his mind uncontrolably drifted back to that math; to that rock and that hard place.  Was there anything he had missed?  Any way he could have changed things? Made things different?  No, he thought.  It had to be done.  "Damn it all." he said too loud, in the middle of Angela's story about a boyfriend she had to break it off with.  He returned her confused look with a solemn stare, and then that same wry smile.  "Don't waste your time thinking about the past sweetheart." 

    As the driver pulled off the road for the scheduled stop in El Paso, she looked him over more carefully.  He had the lean  look of someone who spent their life working outside.  "Come on," she said "let's stretch our legs.  I'll buy  you a beer."  "That's the best offer I've had all day.  Give me just a second" he said, bending down to the duffle bag between his feet. 

As he slipped on his boots, she saw something strapped to his leg; some kind of electronic monitoring device like they make released criminals wear.

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