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Home of the Brave

The Life and Times of Solidod

Home of the Brave

Scott Carrier

Society And Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Solidod in Bozeman, Montana, 2012. Photo by Jake Warga.

Larry met Solidod by chance, or happenstance. He happened to be in Florida on vacation and he happened to be walking through an apartment complex in Vero Beach looking for another guy and he ended up meeting Solidod. She invited him into her apartment and then she told him her life story and they became friends. Shortly after that, Larry and Solidod went into a recording studio and made this story for Hearing Voices.

Solidod in the recording studio, Bozeman, Montana, 2012. Photo by Jake Warga.

The cover of Solidod’s e-book, available here.

Solidod and her husband, by Solidod.

My Indian, by Solidod.

Solidod’s wedding belt. Solidod makes beaded belts and bracelets. She asked me to post her phone number so you can call and order a special design: 772-538-9701.



Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Home of the Brave. I'm Scott Carrier.

0:06.0

Today I have a story that was produced by Larry Massett in 2012 for an NPR program called

0:12.3

Hearing Voices. It's a very unusual radio story. The first and second

0:18.8

time I heard it, I kept having to turn it off, not because I was bored, but because I was overwhelmed.

0:26.2

The story kept exploding in my mind as a big screen movie, and I had to take some time to calm

0:31.7

down.

0:33.0

Here's how Larry introduced it in 2012.

0:37.0

Welcome to hearing voices.

0:39.0

I'm Larry Massett.

0:41.0

Our show is...

0:42.0

Actually, she's sitting right here. My name is Soledad.

0:46.8

Soledad means daughter of the son. I was born in 1929 and I'm 83 this year and I was born on the edge of Death Valley in a little

0:59.2

village of Muscularo-Patty, they're all gone now.

1:05.0

When I first met Soledad, she was living alone in a tiny room,

1:09.0

and a kind of depressing subsidized income apartment complex in Florida.

1:15.1

She was not depressing though.

1:17.1

A few minutes after we met, she shoved me a little knife she carries in her buckskin

1:22.4

pouch.

1:23.0

A sully dot, I said, that's kind of a dangerous knife, isn't it?

1:28.0

Meaning dangerous for a little old lady.

1:31.0

She just laughed. Yeah, it's sharp, she said, but it would be better if it was rusty. So the cut way

1:38.3

get infected when I stabbed somebody.

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