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We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Those were hard times, but I loved living there. I would walk on the tracks, hopping, skipping. I enjoyed the neighborhood, I enjoyed El Paso. I remember being chased by tumbleweeds on windy days; they came up to my neck.

I have really fond memories of Texas. By the time I was eight, we started to go back to Chile very regularly, and many family members came to visit us because we couldn't go visit them.

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.