So researching from that perspective is very interesting. Also the letters of miners who went to the gold rush and wrote home. That is very interesting too because there you discover that a glass of milk was more precious and more expensive than a bottle of Champagne because liquor was all over but there was no one to milk the cows. A loaf of bread was the most precious thing because there was nobody to bake. Well, that was 12 years ago and five books ago.
Life has a way of doing that.
Then I discovered that San Francisco is only 150 years old. I realized it was the gold rush that brought people from all over the world there. And then, at the very beginning, it already had the same diversity and was as cosmopolitan as it is today. You are one of the most celebrated authors in the world. My mother should hear that.