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Hearring, who grew up in Altadena, also lost the home she was renting, forcing her to bounce from hotel to hotel until she found stable housing in Arcadia.

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USC freshman Jazzy Davidson has stepped seamlessly into a star role for the Trojans, a feat that doesn’t surprise five girls who grew up alongside her.

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Wolff grew up in North Haledon, N.J.—near Paterson—the son of an advertising executive father and a mother who was a reporter for the Paterson Evening News.

Shelby Steele grew up “in an entirely black community in Chicago,” he says.

Part Acjacheme Indian, he grew up in the area before serving as a sniper in Afghanistan.

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