It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?
My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.
I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.
When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
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