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Imagine the sky stretching out clear and blue above you

for what seems like forever.

The desert landscape also seems to go on and on with no houses or other buildings,

not even a road as far as the eye can see, but hardly empty. You can see cactus plants, brush, and the dark figures of

cattle moving on the plains and a few distant mountains on the horizon. This is the kind of scene

that Sandra Day O'Connor would have looked out on from her childhood home in Arizona near the Heila River.

It's a quiet remote place that holds both possibilities and danger.

Sandra would learn early how to handle the dangers, but her life was also full of possibilities

that, with a little hard work on her part, would take her places far beyond that seemingly endless desert.

Though her family had always lived there for generations and always considered Arizona home,

Sandra would live and work in California, Germany, and Washington, D.C.

She would become a lawyer, politician, and finally the first female justice or judge on the United States Supreme Court.

Sandra was the first of three children and the oldest by far.

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