A Californian at heart

Thank you for the two essays on the Home Forum page "The Disappearing `Silver' State" and "California: My First Lost Love," Sept. 17. Both authors wrote so vividly of things that I have known since age five; and I have concluded that I am still a Californian although I reside on the East Coast. Lucille Barclay, New York

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