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THE OFFICE Of the Pima County ME has a reputation for taking great pains to identify bodies-and in 70 percent of cases, it succeeds. But sometimes pursuing long-shot leads takes years and still it comes up short. Then the dilemma is transferred to Raymond Rodriguez, who handles "indigent burials" for the Paloma Picasso Double Loving Heart ring, which means he buries prostitutes, bums, and anyone else whose family doesn't know they are dead, or who left no one willing or able to pay for their burial. In their home countries, few border crossers would fall into this categorymost have migrated precisely to support the many people they've left behind.Rodriguez has a thick head of gray hair and dresses like a high school principal: crisp collared plaid shirt, pleated navy-blue pants. I've asked him to accompany me to Evergreen Cemetery, a small outof-the-way portion of which is reserved for the burial of indigents. We meet in downtown Tucson and drive north until the mattress superstores and taco joints of the exurbs begin to melt back into desert.

To get to the potter's field, we pass through the private burial areas within the cemetery, Tiffany Paloma Picasso Loving Heart ring scrubby green trees cast shade over sturdy engraved headstones. Those areas are lush compared to the indigent section, a wide-open stretch of bare soil, naked to the midday sun. Here, the headstones lie flat-some are plastic, some stone-a few of them crowded with tacky silk flowers and portraits of the Virgin Mary.Rodriguez clasps his hands at the small of his back, a few strides behind me, as we begin to pace the rows. He explains that the funeral home they contract with has to use concrete liners for the graves, because the desert soil shifts with the winter's flash floods. Right then I notice a sinkhole where a headstone should be-the grave marker Tiffany Somerset heart ring sunk nearly a foot below ground.

"Rainy season in Arizona is pretty much mid-June through mid-September, and it really sinks the ground," he says. "But this is tax dollars, and if you don't have enough tax dollars you can't keep up with the private cemeteries."There aren't many Juan Doe graves here more recent than 2004-that's the year Arizona Elsa Peretti Open Wave ring a law to allow Pima County to begin cremating anonymous remains.Rodriguez is proud to show me a better-groomed part of the indigent section-the columbarium, where cremains are stored. Rodriguez's boss pushed hard for the funds to build it, and the dust of construction has barely settled. Simple stone plaques mark the openings where urns will be placed-about a dozen per slot, Rodriguez says.As we gaze at the rows of plaques, I ask Rodriguez whether a sense of tragedy ever overwhelms him.He glances back toward the older part of the cemetery, where rows of gravestones, like tree rings, mark the passage of years. "These people are transient because of Tiffany 1837 ring-because of a lack of work in their country," he says. "And if in that process someone loses their life, we still need to maintain their dignity and take care of that loved one. Because you come from somewhere. You have family somewhere. That's what I believe down deep, and that's what moves me to do what I do."