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My mom's grandfather was born in Belgium
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My dad's grandfather was born in Germany.
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My great-grandpa and his family immigrated to the US when he was just five years old. The boat ride was long, and they were starving. When someone offered him a banana to eat, he threw it overboard because he didn't know what it was. They settled in Detroit, Michigan.
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My mom's grandmother was born in Belgium.
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My dad's grandmother was born in a small town in Missouri. We are not sure when her parents immigrated to the United States.
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My dad's grandfather came to the US at age 5 with the rest of his family from Germany.
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My great-grandma on my mom's side was brought over to Detroit, Michigan as an endentured servant to Henry Ford. Henry would bring women over from Europe, have them work in his house for a year or until they could get their citizenship, and then send them off when they were stable.
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After five years of being in the United States, Germaine Maes finally learned English. Up to this point, she knew only Dutch and French.
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My dad's grandparents were married in Missouri.
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My great-grandparents on my mom's side met on a blind date in Detroit, Michigan. They were actually supposed to be on a date with another person, but they ended up going on an airplane ride together.
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My mom's dad was born in Atlanta, Missouri, a few years before the start of the Great Depression.
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My mom's mother was born just before the start of the Great Depression in Iowa and grew up there on many farms.
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My Grandpa Hawkins (my dad's father) was born in Grubville, Missouri just a year before the start of the Great Depression.
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Grandma Hawkins (my dad's mother) was born in St. Louis, Missouri a few years into the Great Depression. She lived in the same house until she got married.
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My mom's mother got married to her first husband in Iowa.
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My grandma's husband died in a car wreck.
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After Grandpa Charlie finished school, they moved from Davenport, Iowa to Mexico, Missouri.
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My dad's parents got married in Missouri.
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My grandpa had a new house built because they needed more space, but it was still in Mexico, Missouri and they didn't move very far. My grandma still lives in this house today.
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My mom was born in Mexico, Missouri.
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Dad was born in St. Louis Missouri.
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My parents were set up by my dad's roomate at the University of Missouri Rolla.
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My parents got married in Mexico, Missouri.
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My mom was able to relocate her job in order to live with my dad in Chicago after they got married.
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My parents moved to Louisville, Kentucky because of my mom's job at GE.
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I was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
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My family moved to IL when I was one and my dad started working at Eureka.
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My little sister Meg was born in Normal, Illinois.
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My little sister Sophie was born in Normal, Illinois.
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My little sister Sydney was born in Normal, Illinois.
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My family moved from Normal, IL to Carrolton, TX to live close to my cousins, for my dad's work, and for the LEAP program.
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After moving to Texas, I began to attend Kent right after Christmas break was over.
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I was accepted into the LEAP program and had to switch schools from Kent to McCoy.
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I started middle school at DeWitt Perry.
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I started highschool at Creekview High School.