Hole-y Mole-y! I read the article about Texas caves with great interest [“Deep (Very, Very, Very Deep) in the Heart of Texas,” December 2023]. In 1952 when I was fourteen, my friends and I would ride our bikes all over the West Austin hills. One Saturday we saw an empty lot with boards across a hole. We could see that the hole was deep, but we crawled under the boards anyway and down to the bottom. We realized we didn’t have a way out. We didn’t have flashlights, but I saw a crack on one side and crawled into it. My friend was larger than me but followed. After about thirty feet, it was pitch dark, and I said to him that we should go back. But…
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