Tell us about your hometown.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. This was my Ohio hometown as a kid.

A suburb (which I won't name), with nearby woods and rivers to explore.

Me at around age 9, after catching some catfish (which we ate):


That was during my red-head years, when even the teachers at my elementary school treated me like dirt. (They were nice when I was previously blonde-haired.)

My parents moved there after they grew up in a rural farming community during the Great Depression. I wasn't born until they were in their 40's, and I have a sister who is 21 years older than me.

When we visited my parents' cousins who still lived in the rural area, I realized that the kids from there were much nicer than my classmates. (If they offered me something, it wasn't some dirty trick on the "ugly" red-head.) My classmates all acted like German ancestry was the best, since their ancestors were German-Americans.