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The author recounts her memories since growing up in Lubbock, Texas. She talks about aquifer as their source of water when she was a child, her experience in joining the Peace Corps after college wherein she was sent to Morocco and was surrounded by a conflict over land, water, and livelihoods, and her decision to choose the University of Arizona in Tucson to study a master's and then a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in geography after the Peace Corps.