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I grew up in Casa
Grande, Arizona.

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And even the Spanish
speakers call it

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Casa Grande, not Casa Grande.

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It's a telltale
sign, if you're not

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from the area, if
you say Casa Grande.

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I grew up surrounded
by cotton fields.

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And in the summer, I would
run through the fields,

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imagining the cotton was snow.

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And I would have--
you know, as a child,

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you have such a
strong imagination--

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I remember shaking and
shivering in the summer

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among those cotton plants.

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And I remember running back home
and asking my mother for a coat

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in the middle of the summer.

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And I remember the
look on her face,

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that was like, what is going
to become of you, child?

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[LAUGHTER]

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"The Blindfold."

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"I draw the curtains.

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The room darkens, but the mirror
still reflects a crescent moon.

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I pull the crescent out,
a rigid curve the softens

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into a length of cloth.

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I wrap the cloth
around my eyes, and I'm

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peering through a
crack in a wall,

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revealing a landscape of snow."

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