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"We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else."
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Source: James Grippando (2009). “Found Money”, p.17, Harper Collins
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