I've been upstairs on the phone, trying to get ahold of two celebrations, two parties that are going on, one in Tampico, Illinois, where I was born, and one in Dixon, Illinois, where I grew up.

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This is where I was born, and so we come back for the holidays.

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Mr. MOFAZ: (Through translator) I want to appeal to the Iranian president, who is from the city where I was born.

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In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women.

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I'm going back to the birthplace of my grandfather, my father, my mom and her side of the family, and I'll be doing so as a devoted and passionate advocate for America, the country where I was born and raised.

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With just a few exceptions, that includes nearly every person I have ever worked with, a big chunk of my extended family, most of my friends going all the way back to elementary school and probably all the kids who were in my nursery at the hospital where I was born.

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Because I was born and raised in Minnesota, where we take snow pants quite seriously!

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Thanks to his research and documentation, I was able to find out where Marley's father was born, his age, and details about his military service.

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"I was born in Colombia, growing up in the developing world where education is perceived as a luxury, and not as a birth right, " she added.

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In the summer of 2005, I traveled to the town in which Bob Marley was born in order to see the place where he was buried.

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