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He greeted me wearing gray felt slippers, green pants and a rust-colored down vest at the door of the large brick home that he had lived in for the past 22 years.

That feeling of, “OK, I’ve got to get this done. And maybe my whole world is falling apart outside of this, but nobody cares. I’ve got to just power through it, I’ve got to play everything close to the vest. I don’t want anyone to see me as weak.”

“This silk vest I have had for as long as I can remember in my adult life. It was given to me by my auntie,” says Snell.

How did I end up here, in what often feels like the Wild West, traveling on this rustic dirt trail — and in a hiking vest?!

Nearby, in Arizona — also a battleground state for the presidential election — Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes revealed in a recent court hearing that he wears a bulletproof vest during election season.