I spoke to you for the first time when I was eighteen, on the stage of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, when I introduced my mother as the nominee for president. Sorry, sir-we were in a rush, and it was the only paper she had on hand.
When I caught the stomach flu in the fifth grade, my mother sent a note to school written on the back of a holiday memo from Vice President Biden. I grew up in the pastures and hills of Texas, but I had been to thirty-four states before I learned how to drive. “I am, and always have been - first, last, and always - a child of America.
