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Well, the children like
to ask me how old I am.

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You're not going to start
with that one, are you?

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I don't know.

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Yes.

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Thank you for your presentation.

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That was very informative.

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Thank you.

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I was wondering, when
you do your research,

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do you take copious notes
on everything you read?

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Or you just kind of
try to remember it.

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No, I take copious notes,
and I'm super low tech.

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I like the giant index
cards, the biggest size

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of index cards.

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I love to just scribble
all over those.

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And I prefer to have my own
copies of research materials

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whenever possible
and actually save

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my notes in the book
on the page where

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I took them so that I can--

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the note is just a reminder
to go back and reread

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that page in greater detail.

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As I said-- low tech.

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I was wondering, when was the
last time you visited Cuba,

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and if it was as an adult,
how was that visit different

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from being there as a child?

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I've been back many
times since 1991,

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which is when the Cuban
government, after the fall

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of the Soviet Union, started
allowing non-Soviet bloc

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Western tourism to come in.

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The Pan American Games
in 1991 is really

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when Cuba started
welcoming outsiders,

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and I've been back many times.

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The legal ways of
going to Cuba--

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there's four legal
ways, and I've

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done them all, which
is legal family visit,

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journalist's permit,
humanitarian aid.

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And I've not done conferences.

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I've done three of the
four, but for most of you,

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conferences would probably
be the most common way

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that people do go.

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So whether it's
teachers conferences

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or librarians
conferences or so forth,

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those avenues are more open
than they were 20 years ago.

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But for me, going back is
extremely emotional every time.

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I love to go back.

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It's also emotionally
exhausting.

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I love to visit relatives.

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I can't give them everything
they ask for or expect,

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so there are always
mixed feelings.

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And yet I would
rather go than not go,

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and I have taken
my grown children

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back so that they could
also meet the relatives.

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Yes.

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In The Surrender Tree, where
they put the English first

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and then the
Spanish at the back,

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I was a little frustrated
for me because I

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wanted to see it side by side.

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I'm sorry.

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And I know that
Spanish is longer.

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It is.

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And is that why the
publishers did that?

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It is why, because you can't
keep the matching pages.

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The Spanish is going to be more
flowery and more roundabout,

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and eventually,
they won't match.

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You can only do that with
short individual poems

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but not with a long story.

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But as an extension of that, I
wonder, will more of your books

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be translated, and are they
available for purchase in Cuba?

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Oh no, they're not available.

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There's no format for
American publishers

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to sell books in Cuba.

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I mean, the trade embargo
would not allow that.

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But I wish that they
were all in Spanish,

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but it's very difficult to get
books translated into Spanish.

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It's very difficult to get
bilingual books published

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in the United
States at this time.

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Most of the publication
of bilingual books

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is very simple picture books
for very young children,

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and most of the translation
of books into Spanish

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is only after they've been
runaway bestsellers in English.

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So Hunger Games will
be in Spanish but not

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most Latino-themed books.

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Interesting.

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Yeah.

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So thank you.

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I think we have time
for one more question.

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There's one over there.

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Last week, I read
The Surrender Tree,

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and I also read a book
called Shadows Cast

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by Stars by Catherine Knutsson.

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And interestingly, both
of these protagonists

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were medicinal herbalists,
female medicinal herbalists,

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and I thought that
was wonderful.

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I wish I had had that
to read as a child.

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I love both of those books.

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And I was wondering if you are
familiar with other books that

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deal with this issue for young
people, that talk about--

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because I thought maybe because
of your past with the botany.

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Huh, I'm going to have
to think about that.

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Offhand, I can't think of--

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maybe some of the thing--

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are there any good
books about Sacagawea?

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Because she was an
herbalist and certainly

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used plants with Lewis
and Clark's expedition.

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I don't know of one, but maybe.

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I don't know of any
other Latino-themed ones,

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but it was an
important tradition.

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There's some adult
books probably.

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I'm going to have to
think about that one.

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That's a good question.

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It's really a part of women's
history that made women healers

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[? be ?] [? women ?] but
also that they lived out

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in the sticks, which could
make them seem antisocial.

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And that could just be
stretched to, you're a witch.

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So it's an important
aspect of women's history.

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Thank you for your questions,
and thank you, Margarita.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you so much.

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Please stick around to
check out our book selection

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if you're interested,
and thank you for coming.