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Which state are you from?

Born in Maryland, but left at age nineteen, now sixty-seven years old.
Maryland >>> Minnesota >>> Los Angeles California >>> Arkansas >>> Texas >>> Los Angeles California (AGAIN)

PS: Both sides of my family (German and Italian) are immigrants who landed in New York City and stayed.
The only reason I grew up in Maryland is that my father worked for the Department of Defense (Pentagon) and we lived in the DC suburbs of Maryland, right on the border.
 
California — born and raised in Los Angeles. No intention of leaving.

Maternal great grandmother and her children came to Los Angeles directly from Piedmont to join her brother.

Other family members made their way here from both Piedmont and Tuscany.
 
venice_ca said:
California — born and raised in Los Angeles. No intention of leaving.

Maternal great grandmother and her children came to Los Angeles directly from Piedmont to join her brother.

Other family members made their way here from both Piedmont and Tuscany.
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You should thank your lucky star.

I come from a desert.
 
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I was conceived in California, in an apartment about six blocks up from Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, on or about June 2nd 1956.

I was born into this world 9 months later in a Catholic Hospital in a Southern Illinois town about 45 miles East of St Louis Missouri and 8 miles West of where I would be raised.
 
LouC said:
I was conceived in California, in an apartment about six blocks up from Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, on or about June 2nd 1956.

I was born into this world 9 months later in a Catholic Hospital in a Southern Illinois town about 45 miles East of St Louis Missouri and 8 miles West of where I would be raised.
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I was born at St. Mary's in SF, life looked good, but within a few months I was consigned to the desert and haven't fully recovered.
 
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I was born at St. Mary's in SF, life looked good, but within a few months I was consigned to the desert and haven't fully recovered.
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My mother separated from my biological father and moved back to her home in Illinois while she was pregnant with me. I never really felt like I was truly "home" until I moved to the Imperial Valley of California at age 25 to live with a great uncle and great aunt. I miss living there.
 
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My mother separated from my biological father and moved back to her home in Illinois while she was pregnant with me. I never really felt like I was truly "home" until I moved to the Imperial Valley of California at age 25 to live with a great uncle and great aunt. I miss living there.
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WTF!

At least you turned out well unlike me.

I was consigned to that very Imperial Valley. Me Mum, who was unmarried, took me there while I was too young to object.

Truth be told, I go back from time to time, camping and such. Once one insinuates into your being, deserts are otherworldly, the trick is not to let deserts insinuate.

Too late for us.
 
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BitterPill said:
WTF!

At least you turned out well unlike me.

I was consigned to that very Imperial Valley. Me Mum, who was unmarried, took me there while I was too young to object.

Truth be told, I go back from time to time, camping and such. Once it insinuates into your being, deserts are otherworldly, the trick is not to let deserts insinuate.

Too late for us.
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Small world and all.

I lived in Brawley and then El Centro.

Oh how I miss the Imperial Valley Carne Asada. It was flavored unlike any I have ever had since, and none match the marinade recipe there, and I failed to bring it with me. Oh, it was also about this time of year that Camacho's would reopen for the fall and winter season. I worked at a seed research facility bordering El Centro Naval Air Station for a while, and for the Imperial Valley Association for the Retarded or IVAR.
 
LouC said:
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Small world and all.

I lived in Brawley and then El Centro.

Oh how I miss the Imperial Valley Carne Asada. It was flavored unlike any I have ever had since, and none match the marinade recipe there, and I failed to bring it with me. Oh, it was also about this time of year that Camacho's would reopen for the fall and winter season. I worked at a seed research facility bordering El Centro Naval Air Station for a while, and for the Imperial Valley Association for the Retarded or IVAR.
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Sweet!

There is a chance we crossed paths, maybe at the Owl Cafe or at Buick's, and the best carne asada came from Kennedy's in Heber circa the 70's, though other institutions took note and quickly copied the recipe or tried to.

Sadly, Camacho's has closed, victim of the pandemic, and my step-father worked at that air station. I still camp in the desert on the far western edge of the station early in the year for the Blue Angel practice.
 
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Rumpel said:
I am not from a US state
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Born, raised, and live in the great State of Kentucky. Have been to all the lower 48 multiple times and always love returning to the rolling hills of Ky.
 
redbeer said:
Born, raised, and live in the great State of Kentucky. Have been to all the lower 48 multiple times and always love returning to the rolling hills of Ky.
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fine!
 
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