On the airless Moon, where the daytime temperature approaches four hundred degrees and the night drops beyond two hundred below zero, where the sunlight can turn your babies into monsters, the thought of making a home would seem beyond even the wildest imagination.
Tex and Dolly Baker saw it differently. In their fertile mind they turned a hole in the side of the mountain into a womb of life.
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