He said his idols when growing up were not British or American, but Jamaican dancehall acts like Bounty Killer, Beenie Man and Sean Paul.
Gaurav Dhy studied English when growing up in India, but soon after moving to Boston five years ago, he realized he had a lot to learn about the way Americans talk.
He knows that he must first acknowledge that his mother was not just a victim of his father (the narrative he told himself when growing up) but a perpetrator of child abuse, too.
Because when the growing up is done, they will be formidable creatures and the world needs those kinds of women.
He's cagey about home life, only briefly mentioning that his parents used to split up a lot when he was growing up, but are still together.
"My dad was a massive rugby nut when I was growing up so the 5 nations was always on the TV and this was the era when we were winning too!"
When I was growing up, people used to talk about seeing the world in Technicolor.
He said Drummer Rigby's dream had been to join the army when he was growing up.
When I was growing up my dad always ate yogurt for dessert at lunch and dinner.
Joni says her parents always had CDs on in the house when she was growing up.
When I was growing up, my family would sometimes play Twenty Questions on long car trips.
Young says she spent a lot of time at her grandparents when she was growing up.
Like too many kids, I thought soda was a big deal when I was growing up.
When I was growing up, lunch was your reward for having accomplished something beforehand.
When Kendall was growing up, American politicians denied that the United States was an empire.
When I was growing up I was more of a DC kid than a Marvel kid.
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"I watched Wayne Lukas when I was growing up, " said Paul Bulmahn, owner of Preakness entrant Mylute.
Certainly not every day, but I definitely watched "Star Wars" a ton when I was growing up.
"When I was growing up, I remember them talking about the house on C Street, " he said.
They were older than most parents, and had required little of Vivian when she was growing up.
Whenever we would ask, 'Gee, when you were growing up did you ever live with a grandparent?
Nannie Jeter is a black woman who helped raise Eugene Jarecki when he was growing up.
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My family had plenty of money when I was growing up, but we never talked about the subject.
"A lot of the paintings I do reflect my memories of when I was growing up, " he said.
He thinks of a blind girl who lived in his neighborhood when he was growing up: Audra Stevenson.
When I was growing up, my mom talked on the phone to her friends, Carol, Linda and Nanci.
When I was growing up, we failed to see how a new thing called radio would transform our marketplace.
But suicide wasn't something that was talked about when she was growing up.
When I was growing up, my mother baked delicious, wonderful cookies of all shapes and sizes during the holidays.
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"When I was growing up, I was obsessed with science fiction, " he said.
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