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The following text is from Joan Didion’s memoir The Year of Magical Thinking. In the text, the author discusses her home life.
[I]n California we heated our houses by building fires. We built fires even on summer evenings, because the fog came in. Fires said we were home, we had drawn the circle, we were safe through the night.
©2005 by Joan Didion
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?