So it's really extraordinary to be here in Tucson.
Yeah, it's quite moving and emotional.
I cried with these group of students this morning.
Thank you for indulging [CHUCKLES] me and my tears.
It's been a really special time.
So much of the community that makes up this book
is a community here in Tucson and in Phoenix.
My cousin Amy is here in the audience.
My Uncle Ray and my cousin Aaron,
I got to have lunch with today.
So it's really exciting.
And normally I say like an introduction to the book,
but Jacqueline's introduction was just extraordinary.
So thank you so much again for your work it's so generous.
I will say that my Nana Pastora, who
is at the center of this book, I just
got to visit in July, that's when her birthday is.
And she just turned 92, and she's doing great.
She lives in the same--
yeah, absolutely.
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She lives in the same house since the '50s.
So it's over 60 years now in South Phoenix.
And so I got her some Nikes for her birthday.
And they don't have shoelaces, you
can slip into them so they're really easy.
And I got a picture recently with her and her shoes
and she really likes them, they're comfortable.
I also want to say that so for her birthday,
we went to her favorite restaurant, which
is a Chinese restaurant in downtown Phoenix.
And at the same Chinese restaurant
this weekend, on my father's side of the family,
there's a red egg party, which is, in the Chinese tradition,
a party for a newborn in the first year.
And so that's happening this weekend.
And so I want to say, hi to baby [?
Kamale ?], and yeah, happy red egg party this weekend.