The divide, oh, the divide: I had grown up with this great border at my back, and its quiet, unerring existence had penetrated deep into my bones and brain.

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Right then I knew I had "grown up" more in two years than the four I had spent in North Carolina.

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Before my wife and I had been able to have a grown-up discussion about what to do (as recommended in those middle-class angst parenting books that we seem to have collected but never read) it all happened very quickly.

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Just about everyone in my hometown of Rochester Hills knew Madonna had grown up there, but I would guess there weren't too many who could point out which house had been hers.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

"It was the worst best idea I ever had, " Ms. MacIsaac said of the slyly grown-up treat, now an immovable fixture on her menu.

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This was a big disappointment, the biggest, because I'd taken up pack-aging science, and I'd forgotten my literature, forgotten that you can't go home again, and so I thought that Amherst the town where I'd grown up, the town where both my parents had grown up, the town where both their families had lived for two hundred years would still be my hometown.

NPR: Chapter 1

Having grown up in such an international city as Miami, Florida, I had the opportunity to work and learn within an environment where Latino participation was very strong in business, the media, government, education and non-profit work.

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He died happy, knowing that I was happy, that I married a wonderful man (still married to him 28 years later), and that his little girl had grown up to be what she wanted.

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