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Article: Senses of place--y de placer--in Baja Arizona.(A Sense of Place)
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- Journal of the Southwest
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- December 22, 2008
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I am out before dawn on a late August morn, chaotically wandering around like a senile naturalist lost in the midst of a city. But Tucson doesn't exactly seem like a metropolis to me; it feels more like a patchwork of neighborhoods, barrios and colonias packed tightly into the same desert valley like so many sardines jammed into a greasy tin.
The more I walk the summer streets of Armory Park Neighborhood, Barrio Viejo and Barrio Anita--their quelites and Bermuda grass and verdolagas growing out of every sidewalk crack and every pothole--the more I feel like I am crawling around the aging, disheveled body of a former lover, a woman I have not seen since her youth, ...
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Article: Cheatham, Maree 1942Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television;
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... ... Relief," The West Wing, NBC, 2003. Appeared as Eleanor in Two Guys and a Girl (also known as Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place ), ABC. Television Appearances; Pilots: Ilene Patterson, B–Men, CBS, 1989. Five Houses, Fox, 1998. Film ...
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