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What part of Kentucky? My family is from West Virginia. Neighbors, maybe.

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They were in Henderson, which I only remember visiting once when I was a kid, to check out the family cemetery. I figure we're all neighbors in some way or another!

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Truth. My grandparents and my mom grew up in Williamson, right on the Kentucky border. And right in the middle of Hatfields and McCoys feud territory. I was born in Huntington.

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I grew up learning about them AND the Baldknobbers of the Ozarks -- talk about weird rural history.

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What a great childhood.

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