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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I still live in the same town where I grew up.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.