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“One difference between the West and the South, I came to realize in 1970, was this: in the South they remained convinced that they had bloodied their land with history. In California we did not believe that history could bloody the land, or even touch it.”
― Joan Didion, Where I Was From

“Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.”
― Joan Didion, Where I Was From