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Introduction to Former Big City Girl**

 Dear Small Towne USA*,      Hi, Small Towne USA, I'm Big City Girl. Well, not the biggest city, but a much bigger city than here. Knoxville, Tennessee was where I was raised. I wasn't born there, but I was brought up there. Almost all of my childhood memories practically are from that city.      Here's one of the things about the big city....you don't need the whole city to get everything you need, so at 18 you don't always have a firm grasp on where things are in other parts of your city. Pretty much every business I went to regularly as a child growing up was within the same 10.3 miles between my high school just west of Knoxville to West Town Mall (in what is still considered West Knoxville). Basically it's as far as driving from Madisonville North Hopkins High School to Earlington Elementary School without using the parkway. The only difference is that it generally only takes about 15 minutes to drive from North to Earlington depending on whether you catch
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