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Life in Irvine

I applied to the University of California, Irvine, writing program and I was accepted. I went to visit it and I thought it was more than I could handle – in terms of having to get on a six-lane freeway to get a gallon of milk, trying to figure out which one was my building among 16 identical huge high rises in a building complex. I was really frightened of it.

Francesca Delbanco, in an interview in the Morning News