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I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

I grew up in the United States.

I love Ohio.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

I was born and raised in Detroit.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.