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As we drove by a large, bare field outside of Chicago, my mother's gaze transfixed on the little green plants that had barely emerged from the ground. She had just arrived on her last visit to the US. It was early May and, of course, there were no signs that summer would come to Chicago any time soon. "What are those?" she asked. "Corn, Mom," I said, adding that at harvest time they would set up a
