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EPISODE · Jul 14, 2026 · 23 MIN

New England vs West Virginia - Which One of Us Had the Better Childhood?

from Open Wide: Unfiltered Opinions between a Dentist and her Patient

Jenny grew up in West Virginia next to a country club on a golf course, with a farmhouse, a massive garden, and six brothers who had a small side business growing marijuana in the backyard that her mother never found out about. Susan grew up in New England with Irish immigrant grandparents who remembered discrimination firsthand, a father who ordered Ebony Magazine to a very white neighborhood on purpose, and a hairdresser who operated out of her living room while a neighbor came in to sell eggs during the appointment.Two completely different childhoods. Two women who turned out to have a lot more in common than you would expect. They get into what small town life actually builds in a person, what it felt like to leave it, the foods that are specific to each region that they will defend forever, and the one thing both of them say they genuinely miss about where they came from. Subscribe, share this with someone who grew up somewhere nobody else seems to understand, and tell us in the comments where you grew up and what it made you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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