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The other part, of course, is
not the part that all of them

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are so much a part of.

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But it's the fact that
we have other people that

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come through that desert
and that landscape.

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And so, of course, here,
those of us that live here,

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are very much aware of
it in different ways.

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And especially the O'odham
who live where they live.

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So having that border
cutting through the homeland.

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And so there's mixed feelings
about the whole situation.

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And anyway, so I reflected
on all of that as well.

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And so I want to
start with some pieces

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about the people
that come through.

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And my point seems to
always be that if you

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walk through the
desert, you have to know

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how to walk through a desert.

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You just can't pick up and
decide to walk through a desert.

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So anyway, I wrote from
the viewpoint of the desert

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in some cases.

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So the first one is called
Not The Intent of this Desert.

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Each tiny blade of
creosote leaf has

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a memory of the people
that have come through.

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The sand absorbs the tears.

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Nightmares sorrows
of the walkers.

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It muffles their cries.

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No one can hear them.

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This was never the
intent of this desert.

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