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Jilly_in_VA

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9. I didn't grow up there

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2024, 06:25 PM

Jul 2024

but I lived in east Tennessee for 35 years, in Cocke County and Hamblen County, and I worked among those people. I have been telling people that J.D. Is a phony for years. I'm more of a hillbilly than he is, and I don't even claim to be! (I can, however, speak fluent east Tennessee should the occasion call for it---I had to when I worked in home health!)

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