You never think you are going to come across a 14 year old little girl in the back country of the Rocky Mountains until it happens to you. Not only 14 years old, but with no adult, no food, no water, and high altitude sickness impending. She was obviously tired and probably getting cold/hypothermic due to the rain and dropping temperature.
The only question she had of us was not of aiding her in her deadly search for her family, or food and water. She simply asked, "Are you guys Christians?" The answer was obvious to me; in my head anyway. I actually had to think about the question, not because I was questioning my Jewish upbringing, but because of the shock that this was her top priority. I looked at my friend with that funny tilty head thing that dogs sometimes do. I wasn't sure if she was asking because she was going to run off if I told her that I was not a Christian or if she was taking a survey during her last day on earth. Luckily the guy I was backpacking with was a Christian which must have trumped my Red Sea Pedestrian background making it alright to be rescued and not left to die or be sacrificed at the hands of the Pagan Jew.
Damn, foiled again!
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I think I would have had an answer for her, but not the one she might have been expecting.
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