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Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

I live in New York City. Since 1983, this is my home. It is my heart, it is my home, and it is the city that I love. I enjoy many places and many opportunities, but I absolutely adore New York City.

New York is my home.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in.

I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.