We all are representative of where we come from in some way or another, I'm more small a- then big A. I always use this TS Elliot quote: "It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London."
He never went back, neither did Mark Twain, Hunter S Thompson, Bill Bryson, Johnny Depp etc. We all left the area, did our own thing.
