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"  Miranda Lambert, Lindale, TX   &amp;quot;Our house was really old. It was built in 1902, and we didn&amp;#039;t have central heat and air. We had a tire swing and chickens and pigs. It was just simple living. But it was home to a lot of people. Every day after school, my mom put out milk and cookies, and my friends and I would jump in these big round hay bales for entertainment. That was our after-school activity, and I loved it. The first thing I did when I had some money was buy a farm. I went back to my roots.&amp;quot; \u2014Miranda Lambert  Loretta Lynn, Butcher Hollow, KY   &amp;quot;My mommy and daddy had 8 kids, so there were 10 of us living in a small cabin in the mountains. The winters were cold, so my mommy glued newspapers and pages from old Sears Roebuck catalogs to the wall to help keep the cold out. We didn&amp;#039;t have money for wallpaper, but my mommy made that old house stay warm and beautiful. In one of those old newspapers was a picture of an actress named Loretta Young. My mommy thought she was so beautiful that when I was born she named me after her.&amp;quot; \u2014Loretta Lynn   Jimi Westbrook of Little Big Town, Sumiton, AL   &amp;quot;My grandmother lived 100 yards from my front door, and to me, my parents&amp;#039; house and her house were one and the same. Looking back, I see what I miss about that place are the simpler times. Back then, the biggest scare I ever encountered was the sound of pecans falling on Granny&amp;#039;s tin roof. It sounded like a cannon going off!&amp;quot; \u2014Jimi Westbrook  Blake Shelton, Ada, OK   &amp;quot;Although I only lived here until I was 10 years old, I spent 18 hours of the day in the summertime at the creek out back catching turtles and crawdads and lizards and snakes. Anything that my mom was afraid of, I was out there trying to snatch up. I didn&amp;#039;t even know what a video game was, and I think that&amp;#039;s why I loved that place.&amp;quot; \u2014Blake Shelton   Martina McBride, Sharon, KS   &amp;quot;Our house was 3 miles down a dirt road in Kansas. We had no central heat or air, a party-line phone, and one bathroom for six people. I caught the bus during the school year and rode my bike for miles in the summer. We&amp;#039;d watch cartoons on Saturday morning and Hee Haw on Saturday night. It was a simple, unspoiled way to grow up.&amp;quot; \u2014Martina McBride  Ashley Monroe, Knoxville, TN   &amp;quot;I grew up in a log cabin that my parents built in 1981. I started writing songs in my yellow, sunflower-themed bedroom. I&amp;#039;ll never forget holding the guitar for dear life and trying to produce the sounds I heard in my head. That front porch is where I held my first concerts. I&amp;#039;d plug a microphone into a cheap little amp and sing my heart out. Every now and then, I&amp;#039;d  even have someone in the &amp;#039;audience.&amp;#039; &amp;quot; \u2014Ashley Monroe  David Nail, Kennett, MO   &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no one prouder to be from Kennett, Missouri, than I am. It&amp;#039;s where my father taught school as a band director, and our house was across the street from the high school. Every evening he hit me ground balls &amp;#039;til dark, and then at night it was back to the band room where I&amp;#039;d play drums for hours.&amp;quot; \u2014David Nail   Brett Eldredge, Paris, IL    &amp;quot;Loyalty is the word that comes to mind when I think back on my childhood home\u2014an A-frame  with a cornfield in the front yard and a lake in the back. I was always surrounded by love and devotion from family, right down to my uncle&amp;#039;s Weimaraner, Barren. He lived just down the road, and every morning I&amp;#039;d find him in the same spot on my front porch, waiting for me to take  him running or swimming.&amp;quot; \u2014Brett Eldredge  Justin Moore, Poyen, AR   &amp;quot;I grew up in a tiny house on 50 acres that my grandpa bought from his grandpa. When I moved to Nashville at 18, there wasn&amp;#039;t a day that went by that I didn&amp;#039;t long for that place\u2014especially my mom&amp;#039;s cooking! Those homesick feelings inspired my song &amp;#039;Small Town USA.&amp;#039; I feel so blessed that my wife and I are now building a house on the family land\u2014just across the field from my parents&amp;#039; home.&amp;quot; \u2014Justin Moore "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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