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I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

I grew up in the suburbs.

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

I was from a tiny little island, which I always say is one corn field away from a horror film: it was, like, isolated, and everybody knew everybody, and you go to school with the grandkids of the grandparents that your grandparents went to school with.

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.