"I felt something behind me and I turned and there is this old woman dressed in black and she asked me what I am doing. ‘Well, I’m trying to write about my childhood, you know, growing up in that small town.’ And she said, ‘Well, you never will get it right until you put me in it.’ I said, ‘Well, who are you?’ and she said, ‘Ultima.'"
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On basing his character Ultima on a curandera that he met in “Rudolfo Anaya: Man of visions” in Albuquerque Journal (2017 Oct 7)
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