South Pasadena, California, is a tree-lined suburb northeast of Los Angeles, where I live and work. I grew up in a small town in rural Iowa, the oldest of four kids in a working-class family. It was a town of primarily Dutch immigrants–hard working, devout, and kind people. I was lucky to have a large extended family around me, including both sets of grandparents. Some of my fondest memories are of humid summer nights playing in our backyard, fireflies everywhere, and of weekends baking cookies at my grandmother’s house.
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