This was one of the first things Rob had taught Curnen how to do, since it seemed everybody in mainstream America had a cell phone. She called her phone from his, saved her number in his phone before dismissing the incoming call on her phone and saving his number. She handed his phone back. It was an excuse to take time to think before she spoke. "Well, like I said, we keep to Tennessee. Eastern Tennessee specifically. Most people leave us alone because they think we're just some weird ethnic group and backward mountain folk besides. Then you get the conspiracy nuts who think we're aliens or the lost tribe of Israel, but they ain't all that common."