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December 1998, National Geographic.

It was the first time I ever saw anyone who looked like me.

The photos on pages 13 and 14.

I was four years old; the best way to describe it that something silently clicked.

Where I was, this Minnesota, this snow ... this cold.

It wasn't where I was from ... I was from forests, and rivers.

That's what home looked like.

I was four years old.