PAOLO BANCHERO TWISTS his 6-foot-10 framework into a kids' seat surrounded by atilt Lego towers. "Don't Touch" signs adorn machine desks, child-scrawled warnings amid a makeshift cityscape of plastic.
It's hardly a country wherever you'd expect to spot the $50.16 million-deal-wielding budding prima of the Orlando Magic. Banchero isn't rocking the viral purple suit helium wore erstwhile helium became the No. 1 wide prime successful the NBA draught successful June. Wearing a escaped achromatic hoodie and sweats that disguise his strength, contiguous the 19-year-old is dressed much similar helium was a half-dozen years ago, erstwhile this gathering was practically home.
"I get nostalgic coming backmost to this place, walking through," helium says, looking implicit his enarthrosis and into the homework country astatine the Rotary Boys and Girls Club. "I spent a batch of clip here."
Banchero grew up successful Seattle, minutes distant from Rotary, a cinderblock beacon for a Central District vicinity that has been bent, warped, shattered and rebuilt by change. Back successful the 1970s, the Black Panthers served escaped meals present connected weekends. When Sir Mix-A-Lot was rising from Seattle obscurity to household stardom, helium enactment connected concerts successful the gym. The city's hoops endowment had ever recovered their mode to Rotary's aging hardwood, but fewer recovered nationwide occurrence beyond it. For the past 3 decades, 2 section coaches person been moving to alteration that, turning Rotary's vicinity endowment excavation into 1 of the astir palmy AAU programs successful the state and creating a assemblage springboard to the game's highest peaks. Now Banchero is poised to beryllium Rotary Style's biggest occurrence communicative to date.
"This is the spot I started playing basketball," says Banchero, a McDonald's All-American, past year's ACC Rookie of the Year astatine Duke and the odds-on favourite for the 2022-23 NBA Rookie of the Year, peculiarly aft helium became the archetypal subordinate since LeBron James to person astatine slightest 25 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists successful his NBA debut past week.
His near limb bears a tattoo of his Rotary jersey, the aforesaid No. 5 he's worn astatine each halt since. His close biceps features the transverse streets of 19th and Spruce. It's the aforesaid code wherever helium sits today, heeding a siren telephone to the programme that catalyzed his travel to Duke and present Orlando.
"This spot means arsenic overmuch to maine arsenic thing tin mean to someone," Banchero says, stretching retired his legs earlier leaning in.
"They could hitch my representation and I wouldn't hide Rotary."
IT'S 1994, AND SEVEN men beryllium successful Dan Finkley's Central District apartment, flipping done a packet Finkley had distributed -- a program for an AAU hoops programme implicit with assemblage obligations and mentorship projects. They're handheld versions of a imagination helium could nary longer support to himself.
The men pore implicit his pages. Some shingle their heads. Scoffs expanse crossed his surviving room. Finkley, a organisation manager astatine Pepsi, thinks his imagination is DOA. Then Daryll Hennings, a young paralegal, raises his hand.
Years earlier, Finkley and Hennings had formed a relationship done hoops -- playing successful assemblage centers and connected outdoor courts. Eventually, they some took up coaching done Seattle's Central Area Youth Association (CAYA) and watched a section mediate schooler named Jason Terry, who would spell connected to go a precocious schoolhouse champion, NCAA champion and NBA champion, outplay 1 of the champion younker teams successful the federation successful a Reno YMCA. Terry was reiterated impervious their metropolis had NBA-caliber players; what it lacked was its ain platform.
"They could hitch my representation and I wouldn't hide Rotary." Paolo BancheroFor years, Finkley and Hennings had looked connected helplessly arsenic vicinity stars -- precocious schoolhouse champions from Terry's Franklin, from Garfield, from Rainier Beach -- were passed implicit by assemblage scouts who hardly gave a 2nd glimpse to players from the city's minority-heavy municipality center.
"Garfield would triumph authorities each year, Franklin and Rainier Beach won a bunch, each the metropolis schools were winning," Hennings says. "After schoolhouse [these players would] extremity up astatine assemblage assemblage oregon backmost connected the streets. That was a pugnacious pill to swallow."
For Central District kids successful the '80s and '90s, religion leagues and pickup games funneled toward the agleam lights of precocious schoolhouse and metropolis bragging rights. High schoolhouse bluish bloods similar Garfield, Rainier Beach, Franklin, O'Dea -- immoderate would reason -- carried arsenic overmuch clout arsenic the city's SuperSonics. Sonics legends similar Gary Payton and Donald Earl "Slick" Watts sardined themselves into tiny gyms conscionable to watch.
Those gyms were often prospects' pinnacles, astatine erstwhile connected a pedestal and stuck successful place.
"The playground was arsenic acold arsenic we could see," Finkley says.
Finkley himself had been a lanky guardant who grew up little than a mile from Rotary successful the precocious '70s. He went to precocious schoolhouse during Seattle's busing era, and though helium lived conscionable a fewer blocks from Garfield, helium got hauled crossed municipality to predominantly achromatic Lincoln High. The busing epoch (in 2002, dubbed by precocious historiographer Cassandra Tate, a "well-intentioned failure") was designed to desegregate Seattle schools but, per Finkley, stripped number students of their enactment systems erstwhile they needed them most.
Where Finkley says helium and his contemporaries felt astir retired of place? Home: the hoops court.
Finkley's caller precocious schoolhouse manager insisted his dribbling gait and shot handling were "out of control." By his sophomore year, helium had discontinue precocious schoolhouse basketball, giving up connected further aspirations and leaning into streetball.
Years later, Finkley and Hennings watched section prospects -- similar Quin Snyder from Mercer Island, a affluent Seattle suburb -- diagnostic astatine Duke and different large assemblage programs. But speech from the occasional breakthrough -- similar Rainier Beach's Doug Christie, who starred astatine Pepperdine earlier becoming a four-time NBA All-Defensive squad honoree -- seldom did nationalist powerhouses travel knocking for Seattle's municipality endowment pool.
"A clump of kids conscionable arsenic good, oregon better, [never] got a chance," Hennings says.
In Finkley's surviving room, the program clicks into place. Finkley and Hennings determine their program, Seattle Style, would get the adjacent procreation to places theirs ne'er did.
B-LEGIT'S NEW HIT "City 2 City" vibrates the portion platform arsenic Hennings pops the passenger-side doorway of his achromatic Volkswagen GTI.
Wiping the slumber from his eyes, Roydell Smiley Jr. piles into the backmost spot with Maurice Murphy, Ed Roy and Smiley's cousin, Jimmie Haywood, conscionable earlier 8 a.m. Still years from filling retired their frames, the mediate schoolers jigsaw-puzzle their gangly limbs into spot arsenic Hennings points his thrust toward the adjacent house. In all, helium jams six mediate schoolers -- a starting 5 and 1 sub -- into his two-door hatchback.
Some would travel with luncheon money, but Hennings made a wont of mounting speech other currency from his enactment astatine the steadfast to screen the rest. It was 1996, and he'd conscionable gotten joined and was redeeming to commencement a household of his own. But Hennings' woman said coaching had changed him -- turned him from a head-down hard idiosyncratic to idiosyncratic his assemblage relied on. She urged him to support showing up.
These play trips had go regular for the young coach. His caput wanders 90 miles northbound to the tourney successful Bellingham, Washington, a satellite distant from the Central District's gridwork of country stores and aging single-family homes. But that was precisely the point: Each travel is simply a accidental for his players to measurement beyond metropolis limits, to spot wherever the crippled could lead.
It had been 2 years since Finkley and Hennings had acceptable their program successful question and started hosting drop-in workouts astatine Garfield Community Center. At first, it was conscionable play drills with a fewer section kids, but well-placed flyers astatine simple schools and connection of rima had done wonders.
Murphy was successful seventh people erstwhile helium attended his archetypal workout. Smiley and Haywood, aboriginal USC and Oregon State guards, respectively, were already playing, and Murphy saw a accidental to beryllium a portion of something. In Hennings, conscionable a fewer years retired of precocious school, Murphy besides saw idiosyncratic who looked and dressed similar him. Hennings knew what it meant to beryllium young and Black successful a rapidly gentrifying Seattle.
"Daryll is from present [and] grew up successful the neighborhoods we came from," Murphy says. "He could subordinate to us."
With Finkley implementing the up-tempo, breathtaking marque of hoops that ostracized him successful precocious school, the Style lived up to their name. Their breakneck gait turned heads, and soon, a formed of Central District and South Seattle standouts -- including Tre Simmons, Roy and his younger brother, a skinny defender named Brandon -- flocked.
In Hennings and Finkley, players saw an accidental to elevate their basketball. But parents saw thing bigger: a affirmative and trusted mentor for their kids.
"I was conscionable enjoying making a quality successful kids' lives wherever they weren't retired doing thing crazy," Hennings says. "I was giving them thing to bash each Saturday and Sunday. There weren't a batch of young, Black relation models. It was benignant of an anomaly."
Even rarer were 2 coaches without immoderate of their ain kids connected the team. AAU squads person notoriously been tally by overbearing fathers with vested interests, but Hennings' lad Arell wouldn't travel done the programme for years. The complaint was ever larger than family: They had a colony to carry.
"It was america trying to instrumentality attraction of the 'hood," Hennings says. "We're mentors, uncles, question agents, counselors, parole officers ..."
In 1996, with a solidified squad led by Smiley and Haywood, the Style moved a 15-minute locomotion up the elevation into the cinderblock hallows of Rotary Boys and Girls Club. Seattle Style became Rotary Style, and 1 squad rapidly morphed into a program. Finkley started focusing connected the Style's younker ranks, which, successful summation to their boys' teams, soon included an in-house, coed simple schoolhouse league and a fourth-to-eighth people girls' programme (a existent feeder for the Pacific Northwest's lone girls' EYBL program, Tree of Hope). Hennings became the diversion manager of the full Boys and Girls Club portion assuming the Rotary Style's head-coaching duties.
He led their archetypal radical of boys to the AAU Nationals successful 1995, and they'd instrumentality successful 1997, but adjacent bigger things were to come.
BEFORE HE BECAME the pied piper of Seattle basketball, Jamal Crawford was a fifth-grader known for dribbling a suede shot successful Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club. Finkley remembers receiving a telephone astir a kid who wouldn't permission the gym and decided to spot for himself.
"Skinny," Finkley says, "but helium had handles."
The three-time NBA Sixth Man of the Year played nether Finkley and Hennings astatine CAYA for a small implicit a play earlier moving to California. Despite being "the past antheral connected the bench," Crawford says they footed his question measure erstwhile wealth was choky for his family.
When helium returned to Seattle years aboriginal to play astatine Rainier Beach arsenic a 6-5 constituent guard, helium sought retired Hennings.
"They had maine erstwhile I was the worst feline connected the team," Crawford says. "It was lone close that erstwhile I'm the best, I play for them again. I trusted them and however they looked retired for me."
Things were clicking for Hennings and Finkley. Shortly earlier Crawford's return, legendary Sonics manager George Karl came knocking, looking to assistance bolster the upstart younker programme with an instrumentality sponsorship and coaching support. Hennings and Finkley had the players, but arsenic the recently formed Rotary's Friends of Hoop, they present had the marque designation of an NBA franchise.
After Crawford joined up successful the outpouring of 1998, the caller squad started putting the federation connected notice.
That AAU season, Rotary battled aboriginal NBA endowment similar Carlos Boozer and Tyson Chandler. At tournaments, assemblage coaches similar Georgetown's John Thompson and UNLV's Jerry Tarkanian would beryllium waiting to speech successful edifice lobbies.
Karl divided from Rotary Style the pursuing year, starting his ain country team, Friends of Hoop. It was an amicable parting, according to Finkley. The Rotary instauration was solidified: Crawford was disconnected to the University of Michigan, and Murphy, Simmons, Haywood and Smiley would each play astatine Division I programs.
"To get a afloat thrust portion representing my location metropolis ... it meant truthful overmuch to me," Smiley says. "I knew we were connected to something, but had nary thought it could get arsenic large arsenic it is now."
Outside of Terry, Crawford and Roy -- 4 NBA Sixth Man Awards and a slew of All-Star Game appearances among them -- first-round picks Terrence Williams, Marvin Williams, Tony Wroten Jr., Dejounte Murray, Aaron Brooks, Rodney Stuckey and Zach LaVine each came done Rotary. Peyton Siva, a second-rounder successful 2013, did too.
In 2022, astatine slightest 9 erstwhile Rotary players are presently connected NBA rosters: Jaylen Nowell (Minnesota Timberwolves), Kevin Porter Jr. (Houston Rockets), Jalen and Jaden McDaniels (Charlotte Hornets, Timberwolves), 2022 All-Stars Murray (Atlanta Hawks) and LaVine (Chicago Bulls), and 2022 first-round picks MarJon Beauchamp (Milwaukee Bucks), Tari Eason (Houston Rockets) and Banchero.
In 1994, that was a tube dream. Today, it's the unabashed fulfillment of 2 men's devotion to maintaining and fortifying their vicinity -- adjacent arsenic their beloved NBA franchise abandoned Seattle successful 2008.
The irony was writ large: As their country churned retired immoderate of the champion hoops endowment successful the country, the metropolis they knew was shifting nether their feet.
EARL LANCASTER SIDE-STEPS softly to the drone of hairsbreadth clippers. At 54 years old, his beard grayer and midline heavier than erstwhile helium opened Earl's Cuts and Styles successful 1992, Lancaster's well-manicured hands inactive determination to a dependable rhythm: precision implicit speed, the angles conscionable close aft 3 decades of lineups, trims and fades. In a dependable procession, young men filter disconnected the thoroughfare and into his barber chair.
Payton, the SuperSonics' 2nd wide prime successful 1990, was 1 of the first. After providing immoderate of the startup currency needed to get the Central District store disconnected the ground, the aboriginal nine-time All-Star would get cleaned up betwixt roadworthy trips, cracking jokes with section kids who showed up to drawback a glimpse of the NBA star. Payton's jersey utilized to bent connected the wall. When immoderate of those kids made it big, their jerseys joined The Glove's -- Terry, Roy, Crawford.
Now those jerseys beryllium successful a closet. A flatscreen rests betwixt the 2 mirrors and a mosaic representation of Lancaster spans the backmost partition of his caller shop, a section hub saved by a Seattle University assemblage outreach grant. It astir wasn't so. Lancaster looks up implicit his glasses, pointing a achromatic comb toward his archetypal spot connected the other country of 23rd and Union Street. Today a 428-unit flat gathering sits successful its place. The liquor store adjacent doorway is gone. So excessively is Ms. Helen's Soul Food and the families who lined up for her oxtail and caller peach cobbler connected summertime evenings.
In the 1970s, much than 75% of Central District residents identified arsenic Black, according to maps from the Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium astatine the University of Washington. Today, according to the Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development, that fig is down to astir 12.6%.
Young hoops players inactive record retired of Rotary down the thoroughfare and rotation into the caller Earl's, seeking retired familiarity successful a jarring oversea of change, a motion of assurance that's not mislaid connected Lancaster. He grew up attending summertime campy astatine the Boys and Girls Club, and a grin dances crossed his lips erstwhile talking astir the play parties that erstwhile turned the vicinity out. When his 2 daughters were successful school, they visited the nine for homework help.
"It's ever been there," helium says, sweeping tufts of achromatic hairsbreadth into his dustbin. "For arsenic agelong arsenic you tin remember."
Lancaster has watched his neighborhood's exodus -- his family, his friends -- from the beforehand row.
"It was ne'er conscionable astir basketball; it's astir improving the assemblage and creating an ecosystem of excellence -- connected and disconnected the court." Maurice MurphyIt's hard to support way of each the businesses that person near the Central District implicit the decades, but Lancaster tin number connected his manus the vicinity pillars that person withstood the city's destructive advance. Rotary is 1 of them. When that archetypal Rotary Style squad started raising wealth for jerseys successful the mid-'90s, helium was 1 of the archetypal section concern owners to spot successful -- a accidental to springiness backmost to the instauration helium grew up with. Since its inception, the hoops programme has relied connected the community's older procreation to prop up its youngest, a narration forged successful car washes, raffles, letter-writing campaigns, section donations -- thing to get their teams to scoutable tournaments.
"[Our teams] were connected a toothpick thread, but we ever got there," Finkley says.
Before her lad starred astatine Louisville, Peyton Siva's ma raised wealth for squad trips by moving a 2nd occupation astatine a Seattle Mariners concession stand. Former NFL wide receiver and Rotary alum Nate Burleson's parents fundraised done blistery canine cookouts successful supermarket parking lots.
"A batch of parents didn't person overmuch but were consenting to assistance with their time," Hennings says.
From the seat adjacent to Lancaster, barber and lifelong Central District nonmigratory Jasen Moore takes the sentiment further.
"Rotary made the imagination disposable for us," helium says.
His brother, Donnie Cheatham, a standout defender astatine Franklin High, played with Rotary successful the precocious 2000s and dreamt of playing assemblage hoops earlier losing his eyesight successful a shooting. He inactive can't carnivore to propulsion his Rotary jerseys away.
"They [showed] inner-city Seattle kids things a batch of america would ne'er spot astir the United States," Cheatham says. "That [this] small circular shot is going to get you determination bigger than your ain neighborhood."
Kids successful Central and South Seattle locomotion a tightrope betwixt the tribunal and the pressures disconnected it, a world Hennings and Finkley recognize each excessively well. They watched ace cocaine ravage their assemblage successful the 1980s and pack unit derail immoderate of the Central District's astir promising talent. Cheatham felt that firsthand, adjacent the outdoor courts astatine Rainier Playfield aft acheronian successful 2008. In 2010, much than a twelvemonth aft Cheatham mislaid his sight, his precocious schoolhouse teammate and top-100 nationalist recruit, Jordan Daisy, was charged with execution aft a reported cause woody gone wrong.
Hennings is inactive successful interaction with Daisy, knowing that someday he'll beryllium retired of prison, looking for a 2nd chance. He hopes to springiness him one.
"Great kids, large athletes ... but they made a atrocious determination and walked down a antithetic path," helium says.
Hennings and Finkley admit that for each Crawford arc, there's 1 similar Cheatham oregon Daisy.
But they've besides seen Rotary alumni usage hoops to physique a amended beingness done the sport, not needfully successful it.
Maurice Murphy, present Dr. Murphy, for one: He captained Columbia's hoops team, earned his doctorate from USC's Marshall School of Business, and is present a tenure-track adjunct prof of strategy and entrepreneurship astatine the University of Georgia. Murphy recruits Black and Latinx younker into the tech space. As an impressionable teenager, helium remembers Hennings urging him to be a much academically challenging precocious schoolhouse successful lieu of getting much playing clip astatine a rival school. Hennings backed that up by giving Murphy further minutes connected the AAU circuit.
"He knew our dreams and pushed america to execute them," Murphy says. "It was ne'er conscionable astir basketball; it's astir improving the assemblage and creating an ecosystem of excellence -- connected and disconnected the court."
ROYDELL SMILEY JR., inactive imposing years past his playing prime, steps into a Rainier Beach gym specified miles from wherever helium played precocious schoolhouse shot with Brandon Roy, the Naismith National Coach of the Year successful 2017 with Garfield, and University of Washington subordinate caput manager Will Conroy. He's noticeably lighter connected hardwood. His achromatic sweats bent loose, and the Rotary logo helium designed -- implicit with a Space Needle rising retired of a Carolina bluish hoops -- is blazed crossed the thorax of his hoodie.
"How's it going, Coach?" The echo of dribbling stops as, 1 by one, jersey-clad teenagers walk by Smiley with a fist bump. The past player, a lanky guard, hangs retired for a fewer words of contented from his aged man. After a last dap, Legend Smiley heads backmost to the layup line.
Basketball showed Smiley -- a erstwhile USC standout and the archetypal successful his talented household to play Division I shot -- the world. It besides brought him back. His begetter played astatine Garfield. Now Smiley's son, Legend, does too. Legend's caput manager astatine Rotary? Finkley.
"To spot [Legend] with the aforesaid coach, my archetypal astatine Rotary, it means everything," Smiley says.
He was successful the archetypal people of Rotary players to travel backmost to coach, starting with his son's simple schoolhouse teams earlier helping retired with older kids. Last play helium worked with the under-16s, and Finkley focused connected Legend and the under-15 squad.
In galore ways, this has go the program's astir invaluable plus and gift: a self-sustaining ecosystem of endowment -- coaching and playing.
"[Roydell] is 1 of the truest examples of what it means to emotion your community," says TraeAnna Holiday, a Central District-focused activist, filmmaker and media manager astatine Washington-based nonprofit King County Equity Now. "When you're intentional astir connecting with young radical successful the country that raised you, it's what existent mentorship looks like."
There's arguably nary amended illustration of that mentorship, oregon the full Rotary experience, than Crawford.
While balancing an NBA schedule, Crawford brought chap stars to his backyard, making Seattle hoops civilization a mainstream affair. For much than a decade, he's hosted The CrawsOver Pro-Am, a fashionable summertime tourney that pits section precocious school, assemblage and pro endowment against names similar LeBron and Kevin Durant. More importantly, it gives section younker a accidental to spot the sport's biggest stars up close, escaped of charge.
Crawford credits the CrawsOver to the bequest of Rotary. In fact, helium values what Hennings and Finkley person built truthful fervently that, erstwhile his ain lad started playing, helium went location to the instauration helium knew best.
"There was lone 1 manager I could person him play for, that I trusted with him: Daryll," Crawford says. "I cognize what [Rotary] is about, what they basal for. No knocks to anyone else, but I lived it."
Soon, Crawford wasn't conscionable dropping his lad disconnected astatine signifier -- helium was coaching, joining a trove of high-level alumni who roam the Rotary sidelines: Roy, Simmons and Smiley person each coached younker teams; Tacoma-raised Isaiah Thomas runs sessions with simple schoolers; Nate Robinson has been a regular astatine his son's practices.
"Maybe they went to play determination else, but their babe is playing astatine Rotary," says Joyce Walker, LSU's all-time starring scorer and a three-time NCAA All-American who was the archetypal women's subordinate astatine Rotary successful the 1970s. "They'll ever find their mode home."
The coaches are there; the endowment is too. With hardly capable country to basal without stepping onto the court, younker Rotary players cram in, often rubbing shoulders with aboriginal NBA talent.
"The Brandon Roys, the Aaron Brookses, the Terrence Williamses. You're close determination with them," Cheatham says. "You mightiness beryllium 5 oregon 6 and spot the large guys signifier close aft your league game. Everybody is watching due to the fact that that's what they privation to be."
As assistance contention becomes progressively fierce, parents from arsenic acold distant arsenic Oregon nonstop their kids to Rotary due to the fact that of the program's pedigree and pipeline. Still, Hennings and Finkley look for immoderate accidental to prop up endowment astatine home.
"The seeds were profoundly planted and the roots are inactive growing," Smiley says.
Legend, a 6-5 sophomore shooting guard, calved and raised successful cardinal Seattle, is testament to that; helium conscionable got offered a assistance to the University of Washington. So excessively is tiny guardant Jaylin Stewart, a rising 2023 ESPN 100 elder headed to UConn adjacent year.
Finkley, present 57, and Hennings, 50, cognize they'll person to bent it up someday, that the location they built won't topple if they measurement away. For Hennings, though -- particularly with incessant rumors of an NBA franchise returning to Seattle -- it's inactive excessively aboriginal to telephone game.
"Paolo's radical was expected to beryllium my last. I had them each the mode done [high school]," Hennings says. "Now I've got a seventh-grade squad that mightiness beryllium my last."
He chuckles, takes a look around, and a grin creeps crossed his lips.
"But I've got a mates of nephews that are beauteous good, too."
PAOLO BANCHERO CUTS into the lane and catches the shot adjacent the escaped propulsion line. He dribbles once, spins, makes interaction with the Detroit Pistons' Saddiq Bey and sinks the abbreviated jumper for the Orlando Magic's archetypal handbasket of the 2022-23 NBA season. It's Banchero's archetypal handbasket arsenic a pro.
Later, successful the 4th quarter, helium catches an outlet walk astatine halfcourt connected a accelerated break, dribbles doubly and soars implicit Cory Joseph for an emphatic dunk.
After the timepiece has ticked down the archetypal 48 minutes of his NBA career, Banchero has contributed 27 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks.
The transverse streets of 19th and Spruce flex adjacent bigger connected the rookie's biceps.
His mom, Rhonda, a erstwhile UW hoops star, had gone to precocious schoolhouse with Hennings, opening the doorway for Paolo to beryllium portion of Finkley's Central District dream. Paolo's dad, Mario, played pickup games astatine the Rotary, and a young Paolo tagged along. Those Rotary roots took hold: Soon it's wherever Paolo was going "four oregon 5 times a week" for summertime camps, after-school activities and, of course, basketball.
As helium puts it: "This is wherever I grew up."
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