Desert Flower

September, 1986

Rebekka Armstrong is something special--which comes as no surprise to her mom"Somehow, I guess my mom knew I was going to be an unusual child," Rebekka Armstrong says, "so she figured she had to give me an unusual first name." Maybe it was the weird desert climate or the barren landscape of her home town of Ridgecrest, California, a small community in the middle of the Mojave Desert; or maybe it was all those loud noises emanating from the naval weapons-testing station nearby...