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Thank you for inviting me.

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It's nice to be here.

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They teach us to
prepare for the future.

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I also come from a desert.

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I always try to give a context
of the place I come from.

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I'm doing a book with
other two writers there,

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a compilation of quotes and I
found this quote which I think

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gives the idea of what it is.

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It's by Richard Rodriguez,
in his book Days

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of Obligation, An Argument
with my Mexican Father.

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It says, "Tijuana
and San Diego are not

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in the same
historical time zone.

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Tijuana is poised
at the beginning

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of an industrial age, a
Dickensian city with palm

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trees.

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San Diego is a
post-industrial city

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of high-impact plastic and
despair diets, and palm trees.

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San Diego faces west,
looks out to the sea.

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Tijuana stares north,
as toward the future.

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San Diego is the future,
strange secular, soulless.

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San Diego is the past,
guarding its quality of life.

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Tijuana is the future.

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Taken together as one,
Tijuana and San Diego

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form the most
fascinating new city

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in the world, a city
of world-class irony."

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