Augury (o´gye re), n: the art or practice of divination from omens or signs
—Random House Webster’s College Dictionary
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I first saw him on a street corner as I left my attorney’s office on a muggy August day while New Mexico’s monsoon season threatened to cut loose at any moment. I don’t know why I noticed him as I was totally wrapped up in discovering changes in my hometown after a long absence. Maybe it was the way he held motionless while humanity washed around him. Or perhaps it was because he was observing me across the broad intersection.
Although I’m a reasonably attractive and fit thirty-five-year-old WASP, handsome strangers do not often stand and stare at me with such intensity. He was too far away to discern his features clearly, but I knew he was young and handsome w
