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Thank you Marianna,
the honor is mine.

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And I'm so grateful to be here.

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Thank you, everyone.

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It means a lot for me for
all nature to live here.

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I went through so many
experiences with this book.

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It didn't even feel
like writing it.

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Sometimes it was just hanging
out with me all the time

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in the desert and I'm really
glad for it to be back.

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I want to say before
I start reading,

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so 50% of the
proceeds from the book

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goes to No More Deaths Phoenix.

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There's also payment information
for No More Deaths Phoenix

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at the table if you
just want to give

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a donation to the organization
and not buy the book.

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Also I have these really
lovely mini broadsides

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of the epigraph from the book.

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And if you make a donation and
show me that you've done so,

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I'll be happy to give you one.

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My goodness.

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Excuse me, I also
want to say thank you

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to Tyler and the Poetry Center.

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And a very big thank
you to Diana Delgado,

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the former literary
director here

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at Poetry Center who invited
me to read before she moved

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on last spring, I think it was.

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