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I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

Emeril Lagasse

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

Jhumpa Lahiri