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“Women who dance with their eyes closed, smiling, are as near to heaven as you can get to earth, and there I was, in heaven, only in Bakersfield.”

“And since I’ve always lived in cities where a lot of people are desperate refugees from small towns determined never to go back except for funerals, I thought everyone was like that. I couldn’t imagine someone in this age remaining past twenty years old outside of New York, Los Angeles, or London. Especially in Bakersfield.”