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My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever there was work at the time. And in rural Oklahoma, that wasn't easy to find.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

I have family in Oklahoma City.

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

I loved growing up in Tulsa.