I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.
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I grew up in Illinois.
I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing.
I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.