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[geekchick]

I just had to call about an order I placed from The New York Review of Books (four of the five books I ordered apparently failed to make it out of their NY warehouse). Their processing center is in Jackson, MS. Hearing the familiar accents on the other end of the line makes me miss...well, it's not "home" anymore, but it was for a very long time. To hear me talk, you'd never peg that I grew up in Mississippi but that was my home from the time I was very young until I left for college. At the time I couldn't wait to get away, but now I sometimes find myself wanting to go back. Not permanently I don't think, but just for a little while.

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[geekchick]

I never had much of one to start with; my mother was from Long Island, and it seems to have muted my own accent a bit. She picked up a bit of an accent later though, and my brother and sister and father all had pretty strong ones.