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I grew up in eastern North Carolina, Edgecombe County,

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on a tobacco and dairy farm outside of Tarboro.

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I'm the next to youngest of a family of eight children--

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--and I am the first member of my family that went to NC State.

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Edgecombe County is a very rural county,

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mostly farming, and that's what we did for a living as a family.

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It's about sixty-five miles east of Raleigh

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so when I came to NC State, coming to NC State and coming to Raleigh was coming to the big city.