I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.
I was raised in Maryland. My mom was born in London, and my dad was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.