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Becca – Corona de Tucson

Dear Tucson, When I was young, I didn’t know you. You were just a place on a map with a picture of a cactus in my World Book Atlas. Growing up in upstate New York I knew snow. I knew maple trees and fresh apples and farm stands. Humidity and snow banks and thunderstorms. I [...]

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Teena – Kiwi Knitting

Dear Tucson, I met a nice young man today at Kiwi Knitting Company, a yarn shop. He was wearing road bike gear and was clanking around the wood floors on bike cleats. He had a pretty sweet ride outside too. He was purchasing skeins of green, white, and orange yarn to knit an Irish flag. I [...]

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Kha Dang – Garden District

Kha Dang’s love letter to Tucson is written not in ink, but in the love and time he has put into the place he lives. Kha moved into the Garden District in the eighties drawn by the proximity to the Tucson Botanical Gardens and the general walkability of the area. Over the past twenty-five years [...]

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Katie – Tumamoc Hill

I first passed through Tucson five years ago with no intention of staying in Tucson for anything more than a few days. In December of 2007, I was on the train between Austin, Texas, and my parents’ home in California, bound later that month for a stint as a human rights accompanier in Guatemala before [...]

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Maria – Rincon Heights

My Dearest Tucson, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you how much I love you.  We have been together for 15 years and in that time, you have brought me infinite peace and tranquility and above all, happiness.  Your beauty is within and out; you enrich my life daily and you make me [...]

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Ka’ve – Catalina del Sol

My dear Tucson, As I am sitting here during this pre-dawn hour lovingly contemplating our relationship, the pinpricked patterns of your indigo sky are now faded, the easterly winds of change have sprung from the calm of the night before. With them comes the cooler subtle sense of seasonal change for your valley. The local [...]

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Leticia at the P.R.K

As a native Tucsonan I have a lot to say about my home town. I have been witness to many changes; yet, there is one place that affords me a lifetime of serenity and joy. This place is Randolph/Reid Park, “the park” as my family knows it. (You have to find a true native or [...]

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Susan – Meinel Optical Sciences Building

I revel in repeating the story of why Tucson became our home. We prayed for a sign our decision to leave the metropolis would be right. As we watched the sunset from our van with hopeful eyes, The sky turned into rain and colors took my breath away. We searched all corners of the city [...]

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Rachel – Barrio Anita

I first moved to Tucson in 1977. I was five years old. A short three years later my family moved away and I spent the next thirteen years pining for my desert home. When I was finally old enough to make my own decisions about where to live, there was no contest. I would move [...]

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Kirstin – Feliz Paseos Park

Dear Tucson, I was quite literally born to love you. It was a hot summer afternoon in 1976 when you first cradled me in your warm embrace. Perhaps that’s why, despite my love of travel and the intense heat of summer, when I return back into your arms I don’t feel oppression, I feel like [...]