Lady Gaga announces plan to fund more than 160 classroom projects in El Paso, Dayton and Gilroy

[CTyankee]

8. I left Dallas at age 17 to go to college and I basically never

returned to live. Dallas held no interest to me whatsoever. It was soulless.

El Paso was my mother's birthplace and where she grew up. To hear her talk about it, El Paso was a very violent place but this was a long, long time ago. Now I wonder about this city that my mother moved away from so many years ago and what it, and Dallas, became. Things got real for me when JFK was killed there. By then I was in New York and I had good reason to hate Dallas even more and stay away. Then my niece was shot to death in Dallas and I returned, once more, to the outcome of violence, now in my own family.

You might say I have good reason never to want to see Dallas again.