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You grew up in Kentucky.
What was.
I was an army brat.
Okay.
What was your first crime?
First crime was shoplifting.
My mom and I've spoken about this a few times, but I'm from eastern Kentucky.
Hazard.
Hazard is coal country.
My dad was coming out of the military.
He was a captain in the army.
Helicopter pilot.
Army downsizes.
He gets booted out.
He goes back to mining.
Coal is what he does.
Strip mining.
So a bulldozer operator is what he was doing.
My mom was a nurse, an LPN.
And she worked long enough to see dad off to work.