Reporters on the job: The moment I will never forget

I didn’t expect laughter.

But then, having spent my life surrounded by people with running water at home (including my home), I had no idea how a person would react to getting it for the first time.

This wasn’t my first time interviewing someone without this basic service. In South Texas in 2018, I’d been struck by how residents of colonias effectively shrugged their shoulders at the lack of running water. Context can be everything, and when you’ve never had something, why would you miss it? …

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