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“I grew up in Pittsburgh, and I got my own place here 10 years ago. You know, we have all these preconceived notions of the town we grew up in—I felt like it was my duty to leave, so I went to Ohio University and moved right to New York …

“I didn’t grow up around a lot of culture and diversity—Valley Stream, Long Island was a very blue collar, white neighborhood. I never ate Mexican or Thai food growing up, and we didn’t really travel. It wasn’t until I moved to Manhattan when I was 18 that I started realizing …