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Sorry for that.

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Yeah, I'm a short person.

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Yeah.

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Perfecto.

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Well, I'm very, very, very
honored, and very excited.

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Thank you so much, Manuel,
querido y admiradísimo,

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for this amazing introduction.

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Thank you, also, Tyler, Paola,
the two Sarahs at the poetry

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center.

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Aria.

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The beautiful
cleaning lady, Liz.

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Well, and thank you all
for being here tonight.

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I'm reading in
Spanish and English.

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Well, sorry, also thank
you to Michael Spurgeon,

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who's on recovery right
now after a surgery.

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He's the director
of the foundation

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in which I have a fellowship.

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The Borchard Foundation.

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And, well, this is "Brujas" in
Spanish and this is "Witches"

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in English.

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I love both covers.

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But I think, well, I choose
this cover with the artist

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from Argentina, Amalia Pica.

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She is an amazing
contemporary artist.

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She had an exhibition at
the Guggenheim in New York.

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And, well, I thought that
this, this picture somehow

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was suggesting the idea of the
brujas or the witches, you know?

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With the shoes here.

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But then, this
happened in New York,

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and the artist, well,
she's a designer

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and she makes mainly covers.

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And her name is Nicole Caputo.

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And I like naming all the women
that work in making books also,

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well, I love also this cover.

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Well, and what's inside of it.

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Let's go with what's inside.

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I was not being
flaky, I promise.

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We're also getting
to this point.