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So it's really extraordinary
to be here in Tucson.

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Yeah, it's quite
moving and emotional.

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I cried with these group
of students this morning.

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Thank you for indulging
[CHUCKLES] me and my tears.

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It's been a really special time.

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So much of the community
that makes up this book

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is a community here in
Tucson and in Phoenix.

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My cousin Amy is
here in the audience.

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My Uncle Ray and
my cousin Aaron,

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I got to have lunch with today.

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So it's really exciting.

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And normally I say like an
introduction to the book,

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but Jacqueline's introduction
was just extraordinary.

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So thank you so much again for
your work it's so generous.

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I will say that my
Nana Pastora, who

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is at the center of
this book, I just

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got to visit in July,
that's when her birthday is.

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And she just turned 92,
and she's doing great.

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She lives in the same--

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yeah, absolutely.

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[APPLAUSE]

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She lives in the same
house since the '50s.

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So it's over 60 years
now in South Phoenix.

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And so I got her some
Nikes for her birthday.

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And they don't
have shoelaces, you

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can slip into them so
they're really easy.

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And I got a picture recently
with her and her shoes

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and she really likes
them, they're comfortable.

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I also want to say that
so for her birthday,

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we went to her favorite
restaurant, which

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is a Chinese restaurant
in downtown Phoenix.

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And at the same
Chinese restaurant

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this weekend, on my
father's side of the family,

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there's a red egg party, which
is, in the Chinese tradition,

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a party for a newborn
in the first year.

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And so that's
happening this weekend.

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And so I want to
say, hi to baby [?

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Kamale ?], and yeah, happy
red egg party this weekend.

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