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And then I couldn't
help as well--

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it's in the news just
in the last few weeks.

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And even before that,
before it was in the news,

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it was happening to
Native women, the hurt

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and the damage--

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sometimes by their own
members, many times by others.

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And so I thought of
the women, and so I'm

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going to close with them a
couple of pieces for the women.

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This first piece is
called "Just Like Home."

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And it is something I
saw-- and it was just

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for a couple of minutes.

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And it just stayed
with me for many years,

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and then I decided
to write about it.

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And it was a woman
buying some bread

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from us downtown,
when we were selling

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fry bread for a fundraiser.

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"Just Like Home."

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"A young woman buys a piece of
fresh fry bread from the Indian

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Parent Association's booth.

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'Oh, just like home,' she says.

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'Do you have any salt?'

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I poured a small
amount in her palm.

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She sprinkles it on her bread.

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She takes a bite.

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'Mm, just like home.'

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She seems unaware she has
her eyes closed as she talks.

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The delicate bite of freshly
cooked bread takes her back.

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She stands on a street
in downtown Tucson

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and thinks of women
so familiar to her--

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her mother, her sisters, cooking
outdoors, in the distance

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the sound of someone
chopping wood, a barking dog.

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Pinion smoke is so
real for her right now,

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her hair might smell
a bit if she moved

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and the breeze caught
her just right."

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