Alex shrugs, an absence in his expression. "Town told me they guessed I was born in fall. An old lady there said I had that kind of annoying personality." Of someone who was dying on the vine, too late to life.
"Paid a lot of money in my early twenties for a doctor to look at my teeth and get the exact year. November 2nd? In the Mexican territory they had Day of the Dead. So I thought the 3rd would be a day to come back. Picked a birthday after a day of celebrating death, gave myself a better name, and started over. Started for real.
"Guess that was the start of my third life. First was with my mother. Second with the Four Corners tribe. And when I was dragged from that grave in Goodsprings, that was the start of my fourth. I keep starting over. It's a little depressing."
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"Paid a lot of money in my early twenties for a doctor to look at my teeth and get the exact year. November 2nd? In the Mexican territory they had Day of the Dead. So I thought the 3rd would be a day to come back. Picked a birthday after a day of celebrating death, gave myself a better name, and started over. Started for real.
"Guess that was the start of my third life. First was with my mother. Second with the Four Corners tribe. And when I was dragged from that grave in Goodsprings, that was the start of my fourth. I keep starting over. It's a little depressing."