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Born in a Belizean American family, the Highland Park native didn’t grow up attending many quinceañeras — his family is mostly boys — but he sees them as a deeply rooted L.A. tradition.

At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security has been posting images to its social media channels that are rooted in far-right themes and ideology.

In their brief, intense interaction, Lockjaw develops a covetous one-sided relationship with his conqueror, as rooted in fetishistic lust as it is racism and control.

The speech was rooted in “an American First foreign policy,” observed Paul Poast, an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago and a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Other contenders included an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf and a lime representing peace in Northern Ireland, a nod to this year's theme of "rooted in culture".