"Every community has a language for the thing it has been living with but could not name.When a name arrives the community does not need to be told that the name is correct.It feels the correctness in the specific relief of finally having the word for what was always there."* * *The Utah mountain community is called Cedarfall, which is a name that belongs to a place rather than to a category, the kind of name given by people who arrived somewhere and decided to describe what they found rather than what they were.It sits at sixty-two hundred feet elevation in a valley between two ridgelines, accessible by a road that is functional in summer and closed by snow for four months of the year, which is the kind of geography that selects for a specific kind of resident: people who choose the terms of their own isolation rather than having it chosen for them. The supernatural population of Cedarfall is small, two hundred and forty registered, mixed-heritage and unaffiliated as all the com
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