Kim Benson

Tell us about where you grew up

I am a Maine girl at heart but have lived in many other places since leaving home for college. I grew up with Acadian French influence and my parents and older generations preferred to speak French.  This came in handy when I was an expat in Paris, France for two years. It has been a fun topic over the years talking about the different expressions and comparing the French I grew up with to the French spoken in France.

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Marnie Baird

Tell us about where you grew up.

I grew up in Canyon, CA, a tiny town in the San Francisco Bay Area. I can’t imagine a more idyllic place to grow up – it’s in a redwood forest, close to the cities but so tiny and tucked away no one know it’s there. In summers I would splash barefoot in the creek looking for water skeeters and in winters go mushroom hunting with my family. My parents still live there so I get to enjoy it as an adult as well.

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Patti Peterson

Tell us about where you grew up.

I grew up in a small town north west of Toronto called Shelburne, Ontario, Canada.  I had an amazing childhood and my best friends are still the women I grew up with.  There was no movie theatre, no McDonalds and one traffic light.  I lived on a dead end street and one winter the Dad’s made an ice rink in the field.  That was a good winter.  

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