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Please take care of yourself. the So now let's move on to the set Ting. Take us there Beth.

Well first I wanted to note that for this week's Fruit Loops Short, we're going to include the history because it's a really important part of the story.

So if you're Fruit Loops Short Fruity, this one's going to be a little longer. So here we go. The

setting is Colorado in 1863 which at the time was still a territory. The state of Colorado borders Wyoming and Nebraska to the north, Nebraska and

Kansas to the east, Oklahoma and New Mexico to the south and Utah to the west.

No offense Colorado but every time I visit you something bad happens to me.

Anyway the Rocky Mountains stretch from 3,000 miles or 4,800 kilometers from the northernmost part of Western Canada to New Mexico and

straight through the middle of Colorado, also known as the Rockies. They are the largest mountain system in North America. Wow!

Yeah, they're gigantic. I mean I've been to the Canadian Rockies. Oh there's other

Rockies. Yeah, they go all the way up there. I mean, it's all part of the same system. It's the same range. Yeah, but wow, I did not realize. I did not realize that.

That's nuts.

It is, it is, it really is.

Oh, nature.

It's so cool.

It's such a shame we're fucking it all up.

Yeah, a real shame real shame. Real shame.

Evidence of ancestral Puebloans, living in southwestern Colorado, dates back to around 500 CE. Native American tribes including the youths, Apaches,

Navajones, Arapagos, Sheehan, Kiowa, Comanche, and Pawnees, eventually made different parts of Colorado their home.

Felipe and Jose Vivian Espinoza were fifth generation descendants of Nicholas

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