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My Contribution To My Personal Tulsa History
Both sides of my family have contributed to my personal Tulsa history. Whether it is my mother's parents growing up just outside the military base in Midwest City, a small town just outside of Oklahoma City, or my father’s parents growing up in small farm towns in Oklahoma before moving to Tulsa to raise my father, Oklahoma is in my DNA. My mother’s parents met in high school in Midwest City and ended up going to the University of Oklahoma together for college. After this, my grandfather joined the Marines and had to leave Oklahoma to travel all around the world, but his love for Oklahoma football and his passion for his hometown of Midwest City always forced him to remember his home. Even after settling down in Kansas City to raise my

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