title: Diary of Death: Suicide: From the Perspective of One Left Behind
author: Kat White Whitcomb
description: Pastor Kat was born in March, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia, where she has lived most of her life. She is a legal secretary, minister, song writer, wife, mother, grandmother, and now author. Pastor Kat has always felt like she was a country girl living in a city girl's body. She enjoys living in the country in a modest home and believes in God, country and family.
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  The Woman at Eighteen-Mile  
    
  
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  # The Woman at Eighteen-Mile
  
  
  ### Mary Austin
  
  
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  I HAD long wished to write a story of Death Valley that should be its final
  word. It was to be so chosen from the
  
  
  limited sort of incidents that could occur there, so charged with the still
  ferocity of its moods, that I should at length
  
  
  be quit of its obsession, free to concern myself about other affairs. And from
  the moment of hearing of the finding of
  
  
  Lang's body at Dead Man's Spring I knew I had struck upon the trail of that
  story.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was a teamster who told it, stopping over the night at McGee's, a big slow
  man, face and features all of a
  
  
  bluntness as if he had been dropped before the clay was set. He had a big
  blunt voice through which his words
  
  
  rolled, dulled along the edges. The same acc