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I grew up and went to
college in Flagstaff,

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which is always on fire.

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Arizona was always burning.

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But that [? Museum ?]
Fire is fairly

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close to my parents' house.

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And now the bigger
danger, of course,

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is the flooding
that might occur.

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So right now, their house
is surrounded in sandbags.

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I don't know.

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I guess I have no real
sentimental attachment

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to that house, so whatever.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"The red off the far ridge,
and eating dragons slow

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coming down the valley, my mom's
imagination over the phone,

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a quarter mile of cars ahead.

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No one has stopped on
their way North or South

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to capture hotshots turning
the beast to smolder.

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Somewhere out in
the burn under dusk,

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a rattler then unfurls,
fast as brushfire,

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and clinches against
the inferno draft

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that blocks entrance and escape.

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For an instant, or minutes
maybe, their unnatural warmth

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is a comfort beneath
the ablaze final day.

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It's the shape I'm in.

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I don't tell her that I will
leave, days from this moment,

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the high dry mountain
we drive toward,

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for the ashes of a
different monster."

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I recently ran the Narbona
Pass Classic with my mom.

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I ran 10K, and she ran the
5K, and at 71, on a whim,

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got first place
in her age group.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So she's a badass.

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That's what you need to
know about Nora Louis.

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Former beauty queen.

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Yeah.